scholarly journals A Cognitive Study on the Translation of Conceptual Metaphorical ESWIS - A Case Study of the Chinese Translation of 1984 by George Orwell

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
Ding Yue ◽  
Wu Biyu
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell ◽  
Chinese Translation ◽  
Cognitive Study

scholarly journals Fieldwork on epistemic authority markers: What we can learn from different types of data

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 405-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Grzech
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Epistemic Modality ◽  
Linguistic Meaning ◽  
Epistemic Authority ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
The Right To Know ◽  
Cognitive Study ◽  
The Right

AbstractEpistemicity in language encompasses various kinds of constructions and expressions that have to do with knowledge-related aspects of linguistic meaning (cf. Grzech, Karolina, Eva Schultze-Berndt and Henrik Bergqvist. 2020c. Knowing in interaction: an introduction. Folia Linguistica [this issue]). It includes some well-established categories, such as evidentiality and epistemic modality (Boye, Kasper. 2012. Epistemic meaning: A crosslinguistic and functional-cognitive study. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton), but also categories that have been less well described to-date. In this paper, I focus on one such category: the marking of epistemic authority, i.e. the encoding of “the right to know or claim” (Stivers, Tanya, Lorenza Mondada & Jakob Steensig. 2011b. Knowledge, morality and affiliation in social interaction. In Stivers et al. 2011a). I explore how the marking of epistemic authority can be documented and analysed in the context of linguistic fieldwork. The discussion is based on a case study of Upper Napo Kichwa, a Quechuan language spoken in the Ecuadorian Amazon that exhibits a rich paradigm of epistemic discourse markers, encoding meanings related to epistemic authority and distribution of knowledge between discourse participants. I describe and appraise the methodology for epistemic fieldwork used in the Upper Napo Kichwa documentation and description project. I give a detailed account of the different tools and methods of data collection, showing their strengths and weaknesses. I also discuss the decisions made at the different stages of the project and their implications for data collection and analysis. In discussing these issues, I extrapolate from the case study, proposing practical solutions for fieldwork-based research on epistemic markers.

scholarly journals A Cognitive Study of the Multimodal Metaphors in National Publicity Documentaries China Enters a New Era: A Case Study of National Image

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Ma Chao
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Meaning Construction ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
New Era ◽  
National Image ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism ◽  
Cognitive Study

Recent years have witnessed great interests in multimodal communication due to the rapid development of information technology. Multimodal texts of different genres have sparked great interest of researchers in linguistic study. Based on the cognitive mechanism of multimodal metaphor, this study attempts to figure out the types of metaphor in National Image Publicity Documentary China enters a new era, meaning construction of multimodal metaphors, and what kinds of national image have been constructed by multimodal metaphor.

scholarly journals A Case Study of Adoption of a Mixed Teaching Mode in the Teaching of English-Chinese Translation Course

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
Zhiling Wu ◽  
Yongqing Guo ◽  
Jianjun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Translation ◽  
Teaching Mode

scholarly journals Fiction May Confront Theories. Locating Determinism of the Newspeak in G. Orwell’s 1984

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-231
Author(s):  
Cătălin Constantinescu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Stanley Fish ◽  
The World ◽  
Linguistic Models ◽  
Totalitarian State

The paper focuses on the relationships between theory and practice and the consequences of dislocating theory from practice as they are illustrated through fiction. The case study carried out here concerns an exemplary novel, Ninety Eighty-Four by George Orwell, observing how the literary discourse can display a confrontation between two linguistic models, each resulted from a different theory: “instrumentalism” (Winston Smith) and “determinism” (O’ Brien). Also, the possibility of identifying an Orwellian model as opposed to the Sapir-Whorf and the linguistic models deserves examination. Newspeak is full of problematic aspects: ideology shapes the language by means of “wooden language” (la langue de bois, in Françoise Thom’s terms). Therefore, the historical “regime of relevance” (Galin Tihanov) makes possible a peculiar (use of) theory: an instrument that translates the ideology becomes the very essence of the determinist theory on the language in a totalitarian state. In discussing the practical consequences of literary theory, Stanley Fish points out that they are inexistent, because theory can never be united with practice, as it is actually impossible to separate theory from practice – a similar observation made by Steven Knapp and Walter B. Michaels. Whether consequences are real poses a challenge: following Edward Said’s argument, Steven Mailloux observes that theory can be consequential by rhetorical means: theory does what all discursive practices do and that is that it attempts to persuade its readers (or population in a totalitarian state) to adopt its point of view, its way of seeing texts and the world.

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