Abstract This paper will focus on referring expressions in news headlines as the research object. Taking referring expressions collected from news headlines from two newspapers published on the same day as the data, this paper discusses t...

Abstract This paper takes 102 NBA payers' nicknames as corpus, analyzing the structure mode and using features of the nickname. From the perspective of the language forms of nicknames, they typically constituted by metaphor and metonymy....

Abstract Modern Family is an American sitcom created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan. It narrates the life experience of Jay Pritchett and his two childrens families which are completely different in structure. The three families...

Abstract This paper is to study both Chinese and English epitaph. Research starts with analyzing different features of Chinese and English epitaph texts. Then, it combines examples with theories of life value and cultural comparison, and...

Abstract With the development of our society, the media have occupied a very important part in our social life. Usually the mainstream media are the models for peoples minds and behaviors, and they are also important instruments which pro...

Abstract: Critical Discourse Analysis is a common analysis framework to analyze political discourse which includes public speaking. Its main purpose is to reveal the use of language, the relationship between ideology and power. It makes i...

Abstract Politeness is a universal principle, for it can be observed in all cultures and societies. This paper first introduces the previous study of the politeness principle, and then lists several typical examples in our daily life to s...

Abstract Based on the Edward Tylors theory of culture, this thesis exquisites the typical features of western and Chinese culture, then proves the culture conflicts are objective and correct by using the theory of culture negative transfe...

Abstract Based on conversational implicature coined and improved by Grice H.P and Levinson C. Stephen, this paper takes American advertisements as materials to analyze conversational implicature occurring in American advertisements. This...

Abstract Sexism, which is a serious and omnipresent problem, affects the development of language and can be clearly found out in language. As an inseparable and important part of language, the addressing system also manifests the fact tha...

Abstract Frequency effects have been proposed by language researchers recently. This study aims to investigate the effects of task frequency on lexical richness of L2 writing. 20 subjects involved in the study were randomly assigned into...

Abstract This paper explores and studies the differences of Chinese and English euphemisms by analysis of the origin and definition of the euphemism. And from the cross-cultural perspective it discusses the relationship between euphemism...

Abstract In this paper, we mainly make some syntactical analysis of the ambiguity in technical English. 50 sheets of scientific paper in English from June 2017 to September 2017 on the Chinese Academy of Sciences Science and technology pe...

Abstract Cooperation Principle (CP) and Politeness Principle (PP) are two basic pragmatic principles in communication. There is complementary relation between them. The present paper aims to analyze how, by breaking down conventional and...

Abstract Traditionally it was regarded only as figurative expressions or a kind of rhetorical skill, for which the study on it was mostly confined to the literary and rhetorical level. With the development of western cognitive linguistics...

Abstract Based on the ego identity theory, this paper endeavors to analyze how youths live when they meet the crisis in the film Trainspotting. The ego identity theory was first proposed by Erikson and was later developed by Marcia who cl...

Abstract In humans communicative activities, verbal communication plays a decisive role. However, on account of the continuous development of society, more and more experts and scholars have realized the importance of nonverbal communicat...

Abstract In the current time, there are more and more films which are about the disaster in America. Meanwhile, the abuse of biotechnology has become the topic for these disaster films in recent years. This thesis aims to explore the abus...

Abstract A language is just relatively independent of the corresponding culture. So, understanding the related cultural background is indispensable to foreign language learning process. It is of importance to combine closely the foreign l...

Abstract Taking the dating show If You Are the One as data, this paper analyzes how the host makes good use of humorous language to appraise the participants, ultimately constructing his own stance on the stage. Methodologically, this pap...

Abstract In the past few years, with the substantial improvement of Chinas international status, China gains an increasing amount of attention from worldwide media. During this process, various sorts of negative reports surfaced. Western...

Abstract With the rapid development of science and technology, people from different countries and cultural backgrounds are making more and more communications. Thus more and more attention has been paid to what politeness is and how to b...

Abstract: Advertising can reflect not only the culture it represents, but also national way of thinking. Different cultures have different way of conducting their advertising. The main target of studying Chinese and western advertising cu...

Abstract What impact does background knowledge have on reading comprehension? Based on schema theory and relevance theory, this thesis is intended to investigate the effects of background knowledge on reading comprehension of Chinese Engl...

Abstract In this paper, we take conversations from The Big Bang Theory as the corpus, in which we study the lingual humor. The lingual humor will be investigated with different contextual theories in systemic functional linguistics in ord...

Abstract This paper focuses on analyzing the effect of verbal humor in the famous American sitcom Friends from the perspective of Conversational Implicature of Pragmatics. Although the effects of humor in this sitcom are presented in vari...

Abstract This paper endeavors to analyze the secularization of the classic Chinese and Western religions through some images of folk beliefs. It attempts to provide a new description of religious secularization based on the primary theori...

Abstract Based on the concept of high-context and low-context cultures put forward by Edward Hall, this paper takes Chinese culture and American culture as representatives of high-context cultures and low-context cultures, aiming to analy...

Abstract The film The Blind Side tells the story of a black orphan, Mike Oher, who was adopted by an American upper society family and with the love, encouragement and help from this family finally became a football star. By analyzing the...

Abstract Different from traditional linguistics which views metaphor as a means of rhetoric, cognitive linguistics holds that metaphors, instead of being a deviant phenomenon of normal language, are a way of thought and a powerful instrum...