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.     

The Analysis of “Chen Ou Style”:A Memetic Perspective

"Chen Ou Style"is one of the most popular discourses and widely used by many people in communication. In this paper, it is analyzed from a memetics perspective that regards"Chen Ou Style"as a strong meme. The purpose is to find out the internal generating mechanism for a meme to become successful, to reveal the evolution process of language, and to provide some useful guidelines and references for better language use. It is concluded that the replication and transmission of"Chen Ou Style"indicates the existence of language memes, and memetics provides a new perspective for the analysis of language imitation, transmission, change and development.     

Science-fiction Color in Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift’ s novel Gulliver’ s Travels was and is continuing to delight by readers of all ages,not only because its satire,a more important point is that its color of science-fiction brings readers into a world of colorful imagination and exaggerated plot.Science-fiction color of prophecy reflected in traffic,weirdness in politics and hyperbole in the characters.All these factors are analyzed according to the original version of the Gulliver’ s Travels.     

The Analysis of“Chen Ou Style”:A Memetic Perspective

“Chen Ou Style”is one of the most popular discourses and widely used by many people in communication. In this pa?per, it is analyzed from a memetics perspective that regards“Chen Ou Style”as a strong m...     

The Symbolism of Major Characters in Animal Farm As It Pertains to Russian Revolution

Animal Farm,full of symbolism,is regarded as a classic portrayal of anti-utopianism in the real world and a satire on the Russian Revolution.George Orwell expresses his views of totalitarianism by using animals to represent the major characters from the period of the Russian Revolution,from Karl Marx and Tsar Nicholas II to Stalin and Trotsky.His characters and scenar io paint a vision of a world of communism in Soviet Union,and Animal Farm chronicles the events and people of the Russian Revolution.Based on the historical background of the novel,this thesis is to reveal the real-life counterparts that the fictional characters in Animal Farm represent,thus uncovering the true meaning of the story.     

The Language Styles in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This article mainly discuss the language styles in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Colloquial and satire are important language styles in this book. Vanity unquestioning acceptance of violence coward and slave all satire the great national problems; Besides, combination of the colloquial language and satire is also very successful in this novel, which vividly reveal the American society at that time .     

A Corpus-based Study on "However" in Chinese Learners’ Writing

The use of "however" by Chinese learners’ writing is studied through a comparison of its use in CLEC and in BROWN and found that "however" is overused in the front of a sentence,underused in the middle of a sentence and misused as a disjunctive conjunction,as is followed by the analysis of three attributable factors,i.e.the writing style,confusion with "but" and negative L1 transfer.     

Mark Twain’s Humorous Satire in Running for Governor

Mark Twain, a mastermind of humor and realism, is seen as a giant in world literature. His humorous satire had great impact on the following men of letters; critics also attached significant importance to it and put forward various interpretations. Noticeably, his humor ous satire finds full expression in his famous short story, Running for Governor. In it, with humor and satire, he exposed the true features and hypocrisy of American democracy. The paper tries to analyze the basic elements which affected Mark Twain’s humorous satire, aiming at offering rational analysis of this humorous satire in Running for Governor as well as making Twain’s works readily understood.     

Commenting On "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"is written by James Thurber, who is the best known humorist in modern times. Thurber is famous both for his writing and his cartoon.Many critics consider him the finest American humorist since Mark Twain and like Twain, his humor takes the form of ironic satire.     

A Cognitive Study on Conceptual Metaphors in English News Headlines

The headline plays an important role in news report, which is a guide for readers to have a quick understanding the information of news. The headline is the"eye"of the news and it often has a lot of metaphors. The traditional theory of metaphor holds that as a rhetorical means, metaphor is mainly employed in literary works, while the theory of cognitive metaphor holds that metaphor is pervasive in our thought, action and language. The paper will discuss and analyze the characteristics of metaphors in headlines by analyzing a large number of English news examples. From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, this paper attempts to help readers to better understand the use of metaphors in headlines.