Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
141 articles
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Study on the Pragmatic Function of Kinship Appellation in Uyghur Language
Parezhati Maisuti
By use of theory of linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and other discipline knowledge, this paper gives the detailed description and comprehensive analysis for Uyghur kinship appellations. At the same time it not only summarizes some main principles of using kinship appellations but also discusses...
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Popular Etymology and Analogous Separable Words
Wen Zhao
The paper, by comparing and summarizing the classic definitions of the popular etymology in China and abroad, points out the features distinguishing the popular etymology from other language phenomena: the old form and the old meaning are obscure; the old form is interpreted with the known form or meaning;...
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The Application of Case-based Teaching in the Translation of College English Test Band Four and Band Six
Yunyun Chen
Since the reform of CET-4 (College English Test Band-4) and CET-6 (College English Test Band-6) in 2013, paragraph translation has become a difficult part for most students. The traditional translation teaching model of “explaining translation theories and comparing reference versions” no longer meets...
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Translation and Communication of Christian Socialism in China
Huashuai Jiang
Christian socialism is a school of socialism that was translated into China earlier. Its communication activities are mostly combined with Christian missionary activities, which open the way for the spread of socialism and create conditions for the people to understand and contact socialism. From the...
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A Study on the Influence of Language and Cultural Knowledge’s Infiltration on English Reading Ability
Lanshu Zhang
Culture and language complement each other, which are two important aspects of English reading. Based on schema theory and the theory of cross-cultural communication, this paper investigates the influence of the lack of language and cultural knowledge on the ability of English reading. Aiming at the...
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A Comparative Cultural Study of Australian Yurlungur Totem and Yi Tiger Totem
Hui Lei
Totem worship formed in primitive society shows the unique culture of its tribe or nation. Due to the lack of literature on the cultural comparison between Yurlungur totem in Australian aboriginal area and the tiger totem in the Yi nationality area in southwest China, this paper studies the totems of...
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Exploration and Practice of Integrating Chinese Character Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools into Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture
Ling Xu, Zunzhang Sun
In the teaching of Chinese characters in primary and secondary schools, problems such as “character amnesia” and wrongly written characters can still be found. There are two main reasons: first, students don’t know the origin and development of Chinese characters; second, students fail to better understand...
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The Appreciation and Enlightenment of Wang Xifeng’s Language Arts in “A Dream in Red Mansions”
Xiaochun Wang
The description of Wang Xifeng’s language in “A Dream in Red Mansions” has great originality. In the process of managing the Jia Mansion, Wang Xifeng can pass on her work ideas in the form of language to her superiors or subordinates. Wang Xifeng has to deal with lots of social figures and various complicated...
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Favor and Relationship: Study on “Kat Bba” in Yi Society
Yan Luo
This paper makes an in-depth study concerning the unique forms of gift exchange in the Yi area of Liangshan by means of anthropological fieldwork. This paper analyzes the motivation, emotion and purpose of gift exchange in different situations. It is found that Kat bba in traditional Yi society has already...
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A Brief Analysis on the Differences of Gift-giving Culture and Its Origins Between China and Western Countries
Jingguang Li
With the development of social economy and the progress of the modern transformation as well as the current telecommunication, it has become a more and more universal phenomenon for the people from different cultural backgrounds to make a mutual communication or exchange. Gift-giving, as an important...
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An Analysis on the Russian Cultural Characteristics of “Battle for Sevastopol” from Overt and Covert Progressions
Yuan Li
“Female Sniper” (also known as “Battle of Sevastopol”) takes the defense of Sevastopol during World War II as the background, telling the military career of the top Soviet sniper Pavlichenko Lyudmila. This article interprets the film based on the dual narrative process proposed by Chinese scholar Shen...
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Research on the Origin and Development Status of “Colourful Sacred Arrow” Culture of Tibet in Jianzha, Qinghai
Leyi Cao, Bing Shi
In order to explore the origin of Tibetan ‘Colourful Sacred Arrow’ in Jianzha, Qinghai province and to promote the regional development of traditional ethnic sports culture, this paper studies the origin, cultural connotation and practical problems of the ‘Colourful Sacred Arrow’ culture through the...
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A Brief Comparison on the Images of “Gods” in Chinese and Greek Mythology and the Social Background
Hui Liu
Greek mythology is the soil for European societies, and the Chinese translation of ancient Greek mythology began in 1907 by the Commercial Press. As the cornerstone of Western civilization, Greek mythology is famous and influential for its self-formed system, complete preservation and wide dissemination....
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The Change of Journals’ Editorial Publishing Concept from the Perspective of Omnimedia
Na Ta
This paper takes journals from the perspective of omnimedia as the research content and adopts the method of inductive analysis to examine the change of journals’ editorial publishing concept from the perspective of omnimedia. From the analysis, it can be seen that, as one of the representative forms...
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Highlight of the Tragic Theme of “The Hairy Ape” by Expressionist Techniques
Xiujin Qian
“The Hairy Ape” is Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece of expressionism and one of his representative works of experimental tragedy in his second dramatic career. This article explores the tragic fate of modern people who are homeless and rootless by analyzing various expressionist techniques used in the play,...
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Study on the Borrowing of Love Theme in Classical Poems
Shu Wang, Yue Cui
Love is one of the basic themes of literature. The theme of love is common in Chinese classical poetry, showing a unique style and feature. The expression of love theme depends on language expression and meaning construction, and depends on people’s experience and cognition. Metonymy is one of the basic...
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An Overview of the Study of Interpretations on Bamboo Slips from Caifengqumu, Zhaowanghuishi & Zhaowangyugongzhitun, Jiandawangbohan in Shangbo Bamboo Slips (IV)
Yanmei Zhang, Shaofang Wu
There are 9 bamboo books in the Warring States period in Shanghai Museum, which are precious historical materials for studying the characters and culture of Chu in the pre-Qin period. Since its discovery, experts and scholars have been studying it. In this paper, there are four aspects closely related...
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Research on the Communication of Chinese Literature Between the Envoys of Vietnamese and Korea
Yan Yan
This paper focuses on the literary exchanges between Vietnam and Korea during the tribute period to China. Because both Vietnam and Korea used Chinese characters as official characters in feudal times, this paper is based on literature review and literature comparative study. The study points out that...
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Structure and Summoning of Ideographic Space: Semiotic Aspect of Public Opinion Research
Yigang Lu
The production and transmission of symbols in human society are constantly constructing people’s world of meaning. The process of symbolic meaning expression and the process of interpreting symbolic meaning activate the thinking world of the social subject to different extents and may reflect the social...
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Two Individuation Modes of Chinese Hero Myth in the Framework of the Heart of Psychology
Ruitong Guo, Yashu Pan
In the approach of the Heart of Psychology, based on “the myth is a METAPHOR for workings of the archetype, this paper finds that the classic heroic mythology of Pan Ku (盘古) and Kua Fu (夸父) embodies the two aspects of the Chinese cultural individuation — natural development and trauma transformation:...
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Problems in Cultural Studies Since the New Period
Furui Jia
This article discusses some issues of cultural research since the new era from the perspective of literature, and sorts out the background issues, definition issues, development issues of literary theory, and relationship issues with literary research in academic circles. Cultural research is an exotic...
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Five Notes on the Study of Shangbo Bamboo Slips
Yanmei Zhang, Shiqiang Gao, Qian Huang, Xinmei Qu, Chunling Huang, Yi’nan Wang, Shaofang Wu
In the process of researching relevant content of Shangbo bamboo slips, this paper expounds some of our thoughts and experiences in the following three aspects: the explanatory point of each specific article in Shangbo bamboo slips, the current interpretation of the texts and the digitization of difficult...
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An Analysis of the Ethnic Chinese Diaspora and Their Cross-cultural Survival from a Transnational Perspective
Xin Dong
As a new form of Chinese immigration in the context of globalization, the Chinese diasporas on the one hand consciously or unconsciously challenge the authority of the nation-state; at the same time, it should be noticed that it also has the side identifying with the nation-state, and in the coordination...
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The Comparison Between the “Moby Dick” and “The Old Man and the Sea” from the Perspective of Ecocriticism
Shanyu Lin
Ecocriticism focuses on the relationship between literature and natural environment and advocates the application of ecological concepts in literary research and the reading and criticism of literary works from the perspective of ecology. Ecocriticism takes the overall interests of the ecosystem as the...
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Comparison of Differences Between China and the United Nations in the Global Anti-epidemic Creative Propaganda and Calls
Yuan Tian
Purpose: Major public health events are fierce with extremely fast spread, which endanger life. The recall and research of visual creative propaganda for public health events will help clarify the special role and effective communication methods of creative propaganda under emergencies, and point out...
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Study on the Collection and Regional Characteristics of Shang Bronze Wares Unearthed in Northern Anhui
Xiaojing Liu, Shuyan Pei
The Shang Dynasty was the heyday of Chinese bronze art. During the Shang Dynasty, bronze wares were not only used as a tool of production and life, but also the ritual ware in the temple, which played an important role in social material culture. In this paper, bronzes unearthed during the Yin and Shang...
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Study on the Research Value of Sun God Bird in Ancient Shu Civilization
Shuyan Pei, Qian Xu
Through the analysis of the image, production technology, meaning and communication thought of the sun god bird, this paper shows the outstanding manual skills of the ancestors of ancient Shu, the understanding of astronomy, the philosophical thought of “the unity of heaven and man”, the worship of the...
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A Study of the Chaghatay Literature “The Poetry of Meshreb”
Aynur Yasin
This article will take “The Poetry of Meshreb” as the research object, mainly discussing and analyzing its literary characteristics. “The Poetry of Meshreb” is a document composed of poems by the famous 17th century poet Baba Rahim Meshreb and stories about him. This article will analyze and discuss...
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Viewing the Publishing Positioning of “Grassland” (1950s—1960s) from the “Instructions for Authors”
Wei Bao
“Grassland” is the most important literary and art magazine in Inner Mongolia. This paper takes the “Instructions for Authors” of the magazine from 1950s to 1960s as the research content and adopts the method of inductive analysis to examine the publication positioning of it. From the analysis, it can...
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The Method of Dating Language Materials from Historical Records
Chong Wang
Historical records are important source of materials for Chinese history researchers. This paper uses the research methods of “original materials” and “other materials” in ancient Chinese to propose a new classification standard for determining the age of historical materials. At the same time it comes...
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Womanism and The Color Purple
Long Shi
This paper aims at studying Womanism and Womanism in The Color Purple. Alice Walker’s Womanism is originated from feminism and it has new demands and different perspectives to feminism. This paper elaborates Womanism in The Color Purple from the following three perspectives: the dilemma of the black...
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Research on the Integration of Chinese Elements into Western Dancesport
Feng Xue, Qing Ma
China has a history of five thousand years of civilization and profound cultural heritage. Chinese elements have become symbols and marks that can represent Chinese culture. As a sport introduced into China by western culture, dancesport has developed into a sport integrating fitness, performance and...
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Telling the Chinese Story and Letting the Voice of China Be Heard
Interpretation of the Cultural Program China in Stories Issued by China Central Television
Zongsheng Yue, Zhuo Li
China in Stories, a large-scale cultural variety show originally produced by CCTV (China Central Television), recreates the classics, excavates the true imprint and the spirit of the times behind literary and artistic works, and explores the national spirit and brilliance behind Chinese stories with...
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A Review of the Uyghur Translation of “Journey to the West”
Riziwanguli Kahaer, Abuduwaili Kerimu
“Journey to the West” is one of China’s four great classic novels, and occupies an important position in China’s literary history. It is also the treasure of Chinese splendid culture, with profound cultural heritage and extremely high literary value. This paper introduces Muhtar·Mehsut and Meryem·Memmtimin,...
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Analysis of Problems Existing in Chinese TV Entertainment Programs and the Countermeasures
Lujun Cao
After more than 30 years of deposit and accumulation, Chinese TV entertainment programs have entered a relatively stable and mature development state, ushered in the golden period of entertainment program development, and been loved and recognized by the broad audiences. However, as far as the current...
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Groundbreaking National Conversation with Cultural Nationalism and Consciousness of Modernity
The Enlightenment of Indian TV Show Satyamev Jayate
Shu Li
This article aims to analyze Satyamev Jayate which was produced and hosted by Bollywood filmmaker and actor Aamir Khan. Satyamev Jataye was a series of TV talk show, which focused on sensitive social issues and national conversation. It was prevailing in India since its premier in 2014 and brought a...
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Study on Pragmatic Failure in Intercultural Communication
Zefeng Yao
With the development of globalization, intercultural communication is becoming more and more frequent. Studying intercultural communication from the pragmatic perspective became a new approach. From this perspective, this article discusses the pragmatic failure from the aspects of pragmalinguistic failure,...
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East and West Themes in Remizov’s Novel “Sisters of the Cross”
Juan Zhang
In Russian literature, the writer Remizov took the role of national thinker and philosopher, and explored the spiritual dimension of Russians in his own creation. He has inherited and carried forward the essence of Russian traditional culture and national spirit, and at the same time, he thought hard...
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Exploring Gilroy’s Theory of the Diaspora Culture
Bo Yang
This paper briefly describes the development of genealogy in the cultural theory of diaspora and discusses the unique aspects of Gilroy’s diaspora theory. With the development of Hall’s ethnic theory, the paper has developed the combination of British cultural studies and post-colonial theory. It also...
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The British Identity Constructed by the British National Quality Newspapers in the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
Weijuan Rao
As globalization progresses, building a national image in international communication is indeed increasingly important. The Olympic Games, as the most international sports event, has a high authority in the consciousness of audiences. Therefore, the report on the London 2012 Olympics is not only conducive...
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Analysis on the Interpersonal Meaning of Western Political Cartoons in the Perspective of New Visual Grammar
Xiaojin Chen
This study analyzes 16 cartoons from the website of American Political Cartoons in the perspective of new visual grammar. It discusses the Sino-US relations reflected by political cartoons. The construction of the interpersonal meaning of those cartoons is demonstrated from three aspects: the focalization...