198 non-English freshmen students from Shandong Yingcai College were selected as research subjects.The subjects were divided into the experimental group(EG) and the control group(CG).The students in EG were taught Eng...198 non-English freshmen students from Shandong Yingcai College were selected as research subjects.The subjects were divided into the experimental group(EG) and the control group(CG).The students in EG were taught English integrated Chinese traditional culture for three semesters,while the ones in CG were taught as usual.The results indicate that the integration of Chinese culture broadens the students' horizons and improves the students' ability to express Chinese culture in English and intercultural communicative competence.展开更多
On the production and understanding of the idioms, cognitive linguists put forward totally different opinions from the traditional linguistic theory. One enduring belief about the arbitrariness of English idioms is th...On the production and understanding of the idioms, cognitive linguists put forward totally different opinions from the traditional linguistic theory. One enduring belief about the arbitrariness of English idioms is that they are non-componential, because their idiomatic meanings are not deducible from the meaning of their individual parts. According to"conceptual metaphor"theory, which are proposed by cognitive linguists Lakoff and Johnson: Metaphor is a mapping that from one more familiar, more easily understanding source domain to a less familiar, more difficult target domain. The paper studies on the idiomaticity and the motivation of the idioms based on the"conceptual metaphor"theory from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.展开更多
Based on M.A.K.Halliday's systemic-functional grammar,the paper puts forward some ideas on how to develop reading skills,analyzing how the ideational,interpersonal and textual functions are reflected and their int...Based on M.A.K.Halliday's systemic-functional grammar,the paper puts forward some ideas on how to develop reading skills,analyzing how the ideational,interpersonal and textual functions are reflected and their interrelationship in reading materials,with an attempt to improve the reading ability.展开更多
文摘198 non-English freshmen students from Shandong Yingcai College were selected as research subjects.The subjects were divided into the experimental group(EG) and the control group(CG).The students in EG were taught English integrated Chinese traditional culture for three semesters,while the ones in CG were taught as usual.The results indicate that the integration of Chinese culture broadens the students' horizons and improves the students' ability to express Chinese culture in English and intercultural communicative competence.
文摘On the production and understanding of the idioms, cognitive linguists put forward totally different opinions from the traditional linguistic theory. One enduring belief about the arbitrariness of English idioms is that they are non-componential, because their idiomatic meanings are not deducible from the meaning of their individual parts. According to"conceptual metaphor"theory, which are proposed by cognitive linguists Lakoff and Johnson: Metaphor is a mapping that from one more familiar, more easily understanding source domain to a less familiar, more difficult target domain. The paper studies on the idiomaticity and the motivation of the idioms based on the"conceptual metaphor"theory from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.
文摘Based on M.A.K.Halliday's systemic-functional grammar,the paper puts forward some ideas on how to develop reading skills,analyzing how the ideational,interpersonal and textual functions are reflected and their interrelationship in reading materials,with an attempt to improve the reading ability.