An Analysis of the Ballad of the Sad Café from the Perspective of Grei mas’Semiotic Square

Greimas’s Semiotic Square is a new approach in analyzing literary works.Based on Sassure and Jacnson’s claim on binary opposition,Gereimas extends it to four actants and adds contradictory relationships.By assign meanings to the four actants,an analysis of the complicated relationship between the roles in a text can be made and a revelation of the theme of the text can be realized.Previous studies of this novel take it as an excellent work revealing loneliness and isolation is thought to be the basic condition of human existence.Other study covers the effects of the unrequited love.Quiet differently,this paper tries to interpret this novel by Greimas’semiotic square and thereby revealing the widely accepted theme of this novel that isolation and loneliness is the final destiny of human being in modern society.     

Analysis of Premier Wen Jiabao’s Interview Talks from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

As a premier,Wen Jiabao’s interview talks are not only personal but to a larger extent,represent the Chinese government.So they are valuable material for the pragmatic study.This paper attempts to explore the pragmatic features of Premier Wen’s interview talks from perspective of Cooperative Principle.Based on this,it also tries to find out the conversational implicatures behind the Premier’s answering strategy and the communicative functions.     

On Death:A Stylistic Analysis of“The Building” by Philip Larkin

Adopting a stylistic approach, this paper tries to figure out the theme of Larkin’s “The building” by means of observing it on three different levels: aural, grammatical, and semantic, offering an example of applying stylistic methods to the study of poetry.     

The Researchon English News Translation

With the development of the whole world,news has become an essential part in our daily life.Therefore,it is very necessary to do some research on news.In view of the distinctive features of news itself and cultural differences between the West and the East,the thesis tries to discuss that to convey an accurate translation Nida’s functional equivalence theory can be applied to compare the accuracy between the source language and the target language.A brief introduction of this theory is given at the beginning.The author puts more efforts to investigate how the theory is feasible to guide the news translation at lexical level in the next section.     

A Stylistic Analysis of Washington Irving’s Stratford-on-Avon

Washington Irving’s Stratford-on-Avon is an essay which recounts the author’s special pilgrimage to Shakespeare’s hometown and his reflections.This paper tries to analyze this paper from the stylistic perspective and reveals that mentality of the writer,his attitudes,his presuppositions,or his moral stance through the conveyance of meaning and evaluation of his language.     

A Brief Analysis of Willy Loman’s Tragic Fate in Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller was considered as the most famous dramatist in America after the World War II, and his representative work Death of a Salesman was recognized as the best play in America during the post-war years. It was also considered to be one of the best three plays in the history of American drama; with A Streetcar Named Desire and Long Day’s Journey into Night.Through the failure of two generations, this play addressed the painful conflicts within one family, and it also tackled greater issues regarding to Americans’ national values.As an average person, Willy Loman had experienced hopes and pains, struggles and frustrations as well as dreams and disillusions, at last he chose to commit suicide. Based on the existent materials, the predecessor’s researches as well as her own thinking, the author of this paper gives a brief analysis of the leading role’s tragic fate, which mainly elaborates three important stages of Willy Loman’s tragic life: disillusion of the American Dream, the abandonment and the betrayal, aiming to decode the root of Loman’s tragedy from the perspectives of society, family and the protagonist’s character. In conclusion, the paper tries to explore Arthur Miller’s inner world and the resources of his creation as far as possible, hoping to give readers of this paper certain inspiration.     

Daisy,A Victim of Prejudice in Intercultural Communication——An Analysis of Daisy's Tragic Destiny in Henry James' Daisy Miller

Daisy Miller,among Henry James’masterpieces,is the novella which won him international fame.As some critics have analyzed,Daisy is a victim of the values of the Old World.In the author’s opinion,Daisy’s tragedy should be partly attributed to prejudice,which impedes the international communication between the newly wealthy Americans and the Europeanized Americans.In this sense,this paper focuses on an analysis of three forms of prejudice in Daisy Miller and tries to interpret Daisy’s tragic destiny from the perspective of intercultural communication.     

An Analysis of Long Day’s Journey into Night from the Perspective of the Cooperative Principle

Eugene O’Neill,one of the essential writers of the 20th century,was hailed as the“American Shakespeare.”He enjoyed a high reputation in America owing to his special writing techniques.Long Day’s Journey into Night was his last play,which was an autobiographical play to some extent,and founded on his own authentic experience.The play told the story of an Irish immigrant family’s daily life from day to night.Among the studies at home and abroad,many discuss this play from a psychological perspective and Feminist perspective.The article,instead,gives an interpretation of this play according to Cooperative Principle.Through the analysis of their conversations,it points out what principles their communications violated so as to understand the implied meaning of their conversations.The thesis tries to study the conversations between Mary and other family members,and then demonstrate that Mary is the most tragic person in the family.     

Learning Strategy Training in English Teaching

This paper mainly deals with the comprehensive knowledge system of learning strategy.Then it tries to probe the steps of strategy training and it’s significance to English teaching.     

The Erasure of Signifiers and Refusal of Signification in Philip Larkin’s Poem“High Window”

This paper tries to analyze Philip Larkin’s poem"High Window"from a deconstructive perspective. It is to show that in the poem the key words/signifiers are always under erasure, and thus the chain of signification is endless since the poem is self-deconstructing. Then, the paper argues that the linguistic features of the poem paradoxically meaningful in the sense that it reflects the poet’s skepticism and anxiety.     

An Interpretation of Ben’s Function in Intensifying Willy’s Tragedy from Aristotle’s Poetics

The play Death of a Salesman is undoubtedly the most influential play of Arthur Miller which depicts a tragic life of Willy Loman, a travelling salesman, induced by his false American Dream of making a fortune out of business. Unlike many other essays focusing on the hero Willy, this one tries to explore Willy’s dead brother Ben’s function in this play so as to demonstrate that Ben plays an important role in Willy’s life by making Willy’s life more tragic in terms of Aristotle’s tragic theory. The first part of the essay illustrates Ben’s importance to Willy and the second part centers on the way Ben pushes Willy to a more tragic situation.     

The Analysis of Symbolism in Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is one of the most earliest feminine works in American literature.This novel was regarded as one of the classical literatures after it had been obsure for decades.This work comprehensively displays the spiritual growth and the self-awareness of a common black woman.By way of analyzing the application of literary symbolism in this work,it aims to display the self struggle and self realization of the main protagonist Janie.It tries to disclose the role of ra cial culture with its symbolic legends in the novel for better interpreting people’s life choices and their emotional experiences.     

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.     

Causes of the Disillusionment of Sister Carrie’s American Dream

Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie is the representative of studying the disillusionment of the American Dream.Since the publication of Sister Carrie,there have been many critics who commented on this work,and its main character Sister Carrie is a controversial person.Dreiser was criticized by critics and readers because he didn’t give any comment on her degener ation.This thesis tries to analyze the causes of this tragedy.In the end,the paper draws the conclusion:the American Dream looks beautiful,but to some extent it is not reliable,just like the foam of soap.It only gives people an illusion.So Carrie’s tragedy is in evitable.     

Intertextuality Liberates Readers—Reading Invisible Man in the Light of Intertextuality

Ralph Ellison’ s Invisible Man describes an unknown name Black man’ s growth.It also penetrates African American’ s history of struggling for survival.In the perspective of intertextuality,this paper analyzes the allusions of the historical figures and contexts;it explains the relation between this novel and other texts;it helps to clarify the author’ s attitude after comparing Blacks’ survival strategies.The paper argues that intertextualiy,as an important critical method,liberates readers.     

为什么中国缺少江南Style(英文)

It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that "Gangnam Style" is satire.When the absurdly infectious single by Korean pop star PSY appeared in July,the video had all the hallmarks of earnest K-pop:highly engineered dance routines,over-the-top styling,and the Technicolor production values honed by Seoul’s hit-making industry,which my colleague John Seabrook describes in the magazine this week in his piece,"Factory Girls." But the most important thing that "Gangnam Style" has is a sense of humor about itself.Its satire made it a viral phenomenon with three hundred million views on YouTube,surpassing     

Development of Western Idea of Property:Taking John Locke’Theory of Property as Example

This paper,taking the John Locke’theory of property as example,tries to prove that it is important to balance the pri ority between social significance and individual interest of property throughout the development of the western idea of property.     

The Constraints of CLT’ s Application in ELT Classroom

Communicative Language Teaching(CLT) aims to develop students’ communicative competence,while it does not work as expected with many students lacking of successful experience in English communication.In terms of the principles and characteristics of CLT,this paper tries to make an analysis on the causes of this phenomenon from three aspects:students,teachers and educational system.Some suggestions,presented in the end,hopefully,can bring some enlightenment on the English Language Teaching(ELT) of China.