This paper tries to probe into the similarities and divergences of discourse deixis based on the parallel contrastive corpus analysis of the original English and Chinese essays sharing the same genre & themes and their equivalent translated texts respectively. Based on the empiri-cal survey, it postulates five typical types of discourse deixis in English and Chinese. The present study makes a pilot contrastive and instantiational-ized survey on the discourse deixis based on the categorization. It proposes that being a weak synthetic language, English utilizes much more discourse deixis such as personal discourse deixis, discourse demonstratives, discourse connectives, and etc., which reflects the properties of overt-marked form in discourse. On the other hand, Chinese, belonging to a typical analytic language, neglects the configuration of sentential structures and employs much less discourse deixis such as personal discourse deixis, discourse demonstratives, discourse connectives, and etc., which embodies the characteristic of covert-marked form in discourse.

The effectiveness of recast, the most commonly used implicit negative feedback in the context of second language interaction, has long been a controversial issue, scholars today remain divided. However, it is unanimously agreed that the target information provided by recast has more strength than that by positive feedback from the perspective of psychology. This paper explores the mechanism underlying the issue of the effectiveness of recast, based on the psychological research on attention and from the neurobiological perspective on the critical role of nucleus reticularis thalami (NRT) in the information processing and concludes that it is equivalent to attention mechanism.

Although there are many translations of classics, no one can become the substitute of the original in any other languages. Through analysis of the Chinese translation of Ulysses with the theories of linguistics and reader’s reception, we believe the retrans-lation of the literary classics is necessary. The reasons for retranslation lie mostly in the change and development of languages and reader’s appreciation as well as the development of society and culture.

With a historical survey and critical reflection of Holmes & Toury’s map of translation studies as the starting point, this paper reveals the contradiction between their defining of translation studies as an empirical discipline and their branch division of the discipline, analyses the significances and limitations of empirical translation studies, and locates the position of prescriptive translation studies on the map of the whole discipline. It holds that the defining of translation studies as an empirical discipline obliterates the humanistic character of translation studies, reflects only the nature of the branch ‘pure translation studies’, not the nature of translation studies as a whole discipline. The utmost goal of humanistic and social sciences is to enhance a sound and coordinated social development, and therefore, translation studies, as a humanistic and social science, ought to be both empirical and prescriptive.

Cognitive studies on translation have been well accepted both at home and abroad, and the focus of studies lies in the explanation of translators’ cognitive translation process. Based on Chomsky’s Generative Linguistics and observations of class teaching, his paper suggests there are three encoding models in translation, namely, memory based encoding model, onceptional-intentional system based encoding model and language faculty based encoding model, and tentatively explains the application and switchover between these models by student translators. With this newly defined cognitive process in mind, the authors regard literal translation and liberal translation as different cognitive presentations in translation, but not the result of subjective selection by translators. At the end of this paper, suggestions are provided for translation teaching.

Scholars in the Republic years already studied the transmission of Chinese culture in Europe, while a new generation of researchers has devoted themselves to such subject since the revival of comparative literature studies in the 1980s. After reviewing the research history, I center on revealing the updated research methodologies: contemporary scholars strengthened theoretical value through absorbing modern cultural studies and developing new subfields such as Imagology, Medio-translatology and Sinological Studies on the basis of traditional empirical researches. Finally, this article reflects on some academic deficiencies still existing among contemporary researches and attempts to enlighten the future researches on this theme.

This paper studies anew the old topic of the quarrel between poetry and philosophy put forward by Plato. While the quarrel has been taken for granted, this study argues from a cross-disciplinary perspective that the so-called quarrel is a deception if we judge Plato’s temperament and dialogues as a whole. As Plato is both a poet and philosopher, poetry and philosophy are two discourses he adopts in approaching the same world. The actual relationship between poetry and philosophy is more dialogic than antagonistic. It is necessary for Platonic scholars of different fields to step across their disciplinary boundaries and learn from each other. This paper would to some extent update the scholarship about this topic and Plato.

This article is an attempt to analyze the automobile metaphor in Flannery O’Connor’s novel Wise Blood from three aspects, namely, the car as the protagonist’s status symbol, sexual object, and spiritual emblem; it also tries to identify O’Connor’s standpoint on automobile consumption by investigating her life experiences and comments in relation to vehicles. Xiao argues that the protagonist Hazel Motes, like a rat on the treadmill, places wrongly his self-recognition and sexuality on the dilapidated Essex. As a car user, O’Connor could not resist the vanity of being a car owner and benefited from this technological commodity for the convenience it brought to her life when she was handicapped because of lupus; but as a conservative Catholic, she called upon her readers to guard against this modern machine which would corrode traditional values and manipulate its users’ mentality.

Ecological aesthetics, in essence, fully demonstrates Confucianism and promotes the harmony and balance between humans and nature. Deeply affected by and absorbing ideas from Confucianism, Park Ji-Won has interpreted ecological aesthetics from an original perspective. This paper attempts to interpret Park Ji-Won’s literary view, analyze his application of ecological aesthetics, and further explore the social values of his literary works.

Willingness to Communicate (WTC) has been recently a hot topic in the field of L2 related individual difference (ID) research. Yet, so far most studies on L2 WTC conducted with Chinese learners of English have been centered on the investigation of L2 WTC and its underlying variables by learners in traditional language classroom setting. Growing importance has been attached to the role of the Internet in language learning, with the development of globalization and the on-going teaching reform of college English in our country. Therefore, to investigate the L2 WTC of Chinese English learners reckoning with the role of the Internet may shed some new light. The author investigated L2 WTC and its underlying variables by Chinese college learners of English and provided possible suggestions on the promotion of learners’ L2 WTC in the web-based environment.

This article tries to reinterpret the English teaching management reform driven by the Test of English Proficiency Oral (TEP Oral), discuss the appropriate orientation of the management and put forward corresponding innovative measures. It is held that the following measures should be taken, including developing new notions of teaching management, establishing clear objectives, introducing the 3E Principle, utilizing market resources, improving human resources and decision making management, and creating a better organizational culture, so as to offer a new perspective to college English teaching management and its research.