Surviving by Dying:A Paradox of Life On Mark Twain’ s Is He Living,or is He Dead

Is He Living,or Is He Dead is a splendid sample of Twain’ s bitter satire.By focusing on textual analysis of the story,this thesis is trying to illustrate "surviving by dying",such a paradox of life implied by Mark Twain,and to reveal the tragic nature masked by the humorous satire in the story.     

On The Subtitle of Twilight Saga from the Perspective of Nida’s Functional Equivalence Theory

More and more foreign movies and TV series has been translated into Chinese,but there is still no mature theory to guide the subtitle translation.The subtitle of Twilight Saga has been selected as examples to discuss how to apply Eugene A.Ni da’s"Functional Equivalence Theory"into the movie translation to achieve expected effect.     

Feminine Consciousness—From the perspective of Gender Markedness

Some researches have been conducted concerning the Markedness Theory about the marked and the unmarked, from aspects of Phonetics, Grammar, Pragmatic, Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic. Few researches have combined the Markedness Theory with literature theories and even no research has been done to study the Feminism Theory from the perspective of the Markedness Theory. This paper discusses markedness theory with regard to two basic issues: Why it is ok to say"历史"in Chinese, but the equivalent in English is"history", not"*herstory". Why the meaning of"governor"and"governess"is distinctively different? No research concerning the issues from the perspective of markedness has been conducted yet. This paper gives a brief review of the studies concerning the Markedness Theory, on the basis of which the question is aroused.     

Devil or Victim—An Analysis of the Characterization of Heathcliff in Wuthering Height

The character Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights is a controversial character that has aroused severe debate among critics and readers long since it was published in 1847.He is considered is a cruel devil and his acts in this novel are too far beyond a normal human’s moral acceptance.However,in spit of physical strength and his power of revenge,he is in a way also a victim of love and society.His destiny is doomed since he came into this world as the one who is"The Other"to take the revenge.     

Study on the Fuzzy COntrol Strategy of Automobile with CVT

In order to study the dynamic characteristics of automobile with a CVT system, a bond graph analysis model of continuously variable transmission is established.On the base of the simulation state space equations that are established with bond graph theory,a fuzzy control strategy with an expert system of starting process has been introduced.Considering uncertain system parameters and exterior resistance disturbing,the effect of the profile of membership function and the defuzzification algorthm on the capacity of the fuzzy controller has been studied.The result of simulation proves that the proposed fuzzy controller is effective and feasible,Such controller has been employed in the actual control and has proved practicable.The study lays a foundation for design of the fuzzy controller for automobile with a CVT system.     

Is Hamlet Contemplating Suicide?

Does the question to be or not to be for Hamlet is whether to continue to exist or not?Is Hamlet contemplating suicide?The meaning of this famous speech in Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been given numerous interpretations.This essay focuses on the paradoxical emotion of Hamlet and intends to make a comprehensive analysis of this soliloquy.     

Study on the Translation of Puns in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from the Perspective of the Functional Equivalence Theory

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a world-famous masterpiece in children’s literature.The adventure stories in the novel deeply attract the child readers in different countries in the world.The use of puns in the work adds to its aesthetic value.In China,many scholars have translated it.The research topic is the application of Nida’s theory of functional equivalence in the pun translation in children’s literature work Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the degree of equivalence in Wu Juntao’s translation.The person who does the research has read the original work and the translator Wu Juntao’s translation of this book,analyzed the translation of puns in the book,read the relevant journal articles on the theory of functional equivalence and thought about the academic views in them.On the basis of text reading,translation analysis and reference analysis,the following conclusion has been made:According to the basic points in the theory,in the work,Wu Juntao’s translation of the puns has basically achieved the equivalence between the original text and the target text in readers’responses,language style and language meaning.     

Is He Better?

A year ago, Mary s brother had a traffic accident and was rushed to the hospital with a very serious brain injury. Last month, I saw Mary in the street and asked if her brother w as any better after the brain opera-tion.“Yes,”she replied,“he's much better.Before the operation he couldnotrecognize anyone.Now he offers greetings to anyone he sees.”Is He Better?…     

On the Application of Booth’s Rhetorical Theory in A Good Man Is Hard to Find

A Good Man Is Hard to Find is a famous fiction which attracts many scholars to analyze the characters of the protagonists. According to Booth’s rhetorical theory, it tries to analyze how the rhetorical skills influence the readers’interpretation to the work by analyzing the application of narrative visual conversion, irony and foreshadowing. It will help readers understand the full fiction better.     

Analysis of Melancholy in Alfred Tennyson’s “Break,Break,Break”

As a "Poet Laureate",Alfred Lord Tennyson has been loved and respected by critics and readers.He is famous not only for his unsurpassed virtuosity,but also the melancholy feeling in his poetry.He excels at penning short lyrics,among which "Break,Break,Break" is one of the representatives.This paper analyzes the melancholy in the poem from different perspectives,the rhetorical device of repetend,the diction and the sound.     

How to improve the ability of listening and speaking

When you are giving the knowledge to the students,don't forget to teach them all the abilities of learning this language.Then how to improve the students' listening skill? We know the largest difference between mother lan- guage learning and foreign language learning is the envi- ronment.A child can soon learn his mother language well. He has heard a lot before he can say something and walk. Then after he is able to walk and say,he has a chance of listening to more.Before he goes to school,he has al- ready been a good listener and speaker.     

Science Letters：Equivalent thickness of materials of fused silica and stainless steel in the flow of microtubes

Over the past decade, significant attention has been paid to flow in microtubes due to the develop- ment in micro fluidic devices and systems. The un- derstanding of flow characteristics such as pressure drop is important in the design and process control of microfluidic devices. However, experimental evidence indicates sig- nificant departure of flow characteristics from the predictions of conventional theory for smaller di- ameter microtubes. Pfahler et al.(1991) observed that as the channel…     

The Communicative Method in the Teaching of Listening and Speaking English

It has been my experience as an Instructress of！lstening and Speaking English Coursethat one of the most difficult challenges Is promoting natural conversation with the students.Many students say that they want more conversation In Speaking classes,but several prob-ferns arise.For one thing,students often do not know what to talk about.They are at a lossas to how a native speaker begins a conversation.     

Self—improvement of Teachers of Foreign Languages

In recents years,the research about the peda-gogical theory of language teaching has put more em-phasis on students.That is to say,students'role instudy has been more and more stressed.Obviously,this has corrected the teacher- centred tendency exist-ed in the traditional teaching methodology in whichstudents'own initiatives were often neglected.How-ever,atany time in the course of students'study,theguiding role of a teacher can never be neglected or re-placed.In other words,teachers of foreign…     

On the Exploration of the Viewpoints of Oscar Wilde in Model Millionaire——With the Approach of Appraisal Theory

Oscar Wilde has always been regarded as a controversial writer.A variety of literary criticism has been made on his works in the pure literary way.In this paper,the writer tends to obtain his viewpoints from analyzing Wilde’s piece of works Model Millionaire with the approach of Appraisal Theory,which is part of Systemic-Functional Grammar.     

The Study of Semantic Functional Equivalence of Predicates in Xi Youji and Its English Version Journey to the West—From the Perspective of Transitivity Theory

Equivalence in translation was first put forward by Firth. It has been the nuclear topic of translation studies in western countries."Functional equivalence", Eugene Nida’s key notion of translation theories, advocated the receptor-oriented translation standard. Through the contrastive study between Xi Youji and its English version Journey to the West, the content focuses on the translation of the verbal predicates and aims at studying the application of transitivity theory into Chinese-English translation and finding out the improved translations of Chinese and English examples of different processes. Due to limited article, this paper only discusses three of six processes in the concrete context and provides new translations for the questioned ones. Finally, the last part summarizes that the functional equivalence can be achieved when verbs referring to process of action share the same semantic attribute with the Chinese originals, so the English version of Xi Youji should be further perfected according to transitivity theory.     

What,according to Michel Foucault,characterizes the order of discourse?

Through his theory,Michel Foucault uses the epistemological approach to answer the question "how?" concerning the colluding concepts of knowledge,discourse,and the order of discourse.He aims at getting to know,almost deciphering,the processes and circumstances of knowledge by answering the question "How do we know what we know?"     

Minimizing of the only-insertion insdel systems

INTRODUCTION In formal language theory,most language gen-erative devices are based on the operation of rewriting,but,two other operations can also play the same role:insertion and deletion operation,originally motivated mainly from linguistics.Because the phenomena that is similar to these operations has been found in DNA operations,these two language operations have come to the special attention of researchers in the DNA computing area.For a given string xuvy,an insertion operation(u,w…     

Mapping of Wolfgang Iser’s Reception Theory

It aims to map the theory of one of the leading reception aestheticians,Wolfgang Iser,dealing with his concept on reception aesthetics.From the 1960s until now,Reader-Oriented Criticism has been on the wing,and it regards the reader as the investigated object and offers the reader an authoritative position,emphasizing the relation between the text and the reader,and the influence the text brings to the reader.His basic and systematical theory are at first centered which has got Iser renowned around the world.The significance and the evaluation of his theory are elaborated in the last part.Iser’s theory is treated as a great challenge towards the traditional literary criticism,soon spread to the other countries,bringing something new and refreshing to the filed of literary criticism.     

An Action Research Focusing on the Improvement of Students’ Writing Competence

Based on the theory of Consciousness- Raising( CR),this paper proposes a teaching reform in her class,aiming to improve students’ writing competence.Activities have been carried out in their English study and different tasks have been performed at different stages to train the students to be more effective in writing.This paper has expounded the feasibility of this action research and carefully presented the teaching procedures,hoping to help teachers to become more reflective and innovative in their teaching.