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.     

A Psychological Analysis of Laura’s Personality in Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party

This paper explores Laura’s inner world, applying Freud’s theory of the unconscious and the structure of the mind,Jung’s idea of archetypes, and Lacan’s concepts of the three orders. The story in The Garden Party depicts, in the movement toward adulthood, how Laura feels, thinks and acts under the drive of the id, and the adjustment of the ego and the superego. Laura’s psychological development indicates Laura has a healthy personality. She can confront her imperfection in her growth.     

Influence of Co-membership on Teacher’s Coauthoring on Student’s Narratives

This paper examines the specific research question of how co-membership in discourse style and life experience influences teacher’s coauthoring on student’s narratives in the ESL teaching and learning context in the United States. As a case study,a specific student’s classroom narratives are transcribed and analyzed. The research findings indicate that a shared discourse style and an overlap in life experience between the teacher and the student will exert positive influence on the teacher’s coauthoring on the student’s narratives. Above all,sharing the same discourse style makes it possible for the teacher to recognize the rhythm of the student’s narratives,to detect the moments when the student needs interactional support and offer help,and to quickly notice a potential ending of the student’s narrative and expand it with open-ended questions and comments. In addition,an overlap in life experience makes it possible for the teacher to go deep into the student’s narratives by contributing specific and concrete thoughts rather than responding with superficial ideas.     

A Case Study of Improving a Reading Class via Peer Observation

The significance of peer observations has been emphasized in English language teaching as a powerful tool to support understanding and development of one’s teaching beliefs and actual practice.This thesis first presents the position and necessity of employing peer observation in teacher’s professional development with reference to the literature,and then it outlines the process of the author’s implementation of peer observation in classroom in terms of pre-,during-and post-observation.Data interpretation provides more insights into the strengths and problems of the author’s classroom teaching and arrangement,and the possible solutions accordingly.     

The Voice of Gender in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

The paper deals with the reading and interpreting of the voice of gender in Emily Dickinson’s poems.The gender,the 1yric poem and the reading constitute the performance.Dickinson succeeded in constructing alternatives to a traditional,fixed binary gender system(woman/man) and opens opportunities for the reader to perform alternative gendering.Analysis of voices of gender in and of Dickinson’s poems shows that her variant performances of gender are crucial to the general construction of her poetry.Through the analysis of the voice of gender in Dickinson’s poetry,the paper discloses the crucial function of poets construct in women’s rebellion and self-salvation and subverting patriarchy,which also demonstrates her uniqueness in her life and literary creativity.     

The Teacher’s Role of Listening Comprehension

Throughout the history of the listening comprehension teaching at home and abroad, the research mainly focus on the correlation of the learner’s English listening proficiency and their self-efficiency. Scholars like Alisa J.Bates, Penny Ur. and Widdowson, H. G. have claimed the significance of teacher’s role in listening comprehension. For the purpose of proving the necessity of the teacher’s role in listening comprehension, based on the analysis of the features of classroom listening comprehension,this paper presents the teacher’s role before class, in class and after class. Meanwhile, during the teaching process, teachers and learners are revealed in two way interactive relations and the pedagogical process is the result of the bilateral interaction of the two sides.     

The Disillusionment of American Dream in The Great Gatsby

Among the modern novelists of America, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), owing to his masterpiece The Great Gatsby, once won a high admiration and reputation in the world literature. He was regarded as one of the most influential American novelists of the 1920s.This paper focuses on the analysis of the author and the figures in the novel. It aims to reveal the formation, development and disillusionment of American Dream through the analysis of the novel’s writing background and plot, the author’s experience, the connotation of American Dream in different historic backgrounds and the disillusionment of Gatsby’s American Dream.     

Gender Discrimination in English

Gender discrimination in language is usually defined as discrimination based on sex,especially discrimination against women.With the rise of women’s liberation movement in the 1960s and 1970s,and the improvement of women’s social status in recent years,gender discrimination in English attracts more and more attention.Based on previous studies,this thesis first discusses the manifestations of gender discrimination in English vocabulary and address terms,then analyzes the factors of gender discrimination in English from social and cultural perspectives,finally puts forward some methods that are good for avoiding or eliminating gender discrimination in English.     

On the Study of the Translator's Position in Traditional Translation Theories

In traditional translation theories, the author and the translator, the original text and the translated text are in the binary oppositions. Both author-centeredness and text-centeredness are in authoritative positions. Moreover, there are some incorrect viewpoints about the translator’s position in the traditional translation theories. In this case, this paper will analyze the translator’s position in the traditional translation theories comprehensively.     

On the Theme of Coexistence of Opposites in The Left Hand of Darkness

As one of the best-known literary works of the American novelist Ursula K.Le Guin,The Left Hand of Darkness is not only successful in its splendid plots and beautiful language but also in the important function of its readers in reading.In the thesis,one of its themes,coexistence of opposites,is analyzed in the reader response perspective in order to reveal Le Guin’s reader-consciousness.The theme exists on a higher level in the novel and expresses Le Guin’s attitude towards life and universe.Le Guin unified her own philosophy in the novel and tried to call for the reader’s resonance.     

Jane Eyre’s Character Displayed in Her Experience of Marriage and Love

Charlotte Bronte is a famous English woman novelist in the 19th century.Her masterpiece Jane Eyre creates a bright figure in the world’s literature,attracting readers of generations all through the globe with her character of both unconvention and convention,which is a unity of contradictions.In this paper,the author presents the analysis in two parts:Jane Eyre’s convention presented in her experience of marriage and love,and Jane Eyre’s unconvention presented in her experience of marriage and love,drawing a conclusion finally that the two aspects of Jane Eyre’s nature-unconvention and convention are indispensable for portraying the heroine.     

A Unity of Contradictions-An Analysis of Jane Eyre’s Character

Charlotte Bronte’s masterpiece Jane Eyre creates a bright figure in the world’s literature, attracting readers of generations all through the globe with her character of both unconvention and convention, which is a unity of contradictions. In this paper, the author presents the analysis in two parts: Jane Eyre’s childhood in Gateshead, and Jane Eyre’s schooldays in Lowood, drawing a conclusion finally that the two aspects of Jane Eyre’s nature-unconvention and convention are indispensable for portraying the heroine.     

Rewriting Matricide in Phyllis Nagy’s Butterfly Kiss

This essay discusses the matricidal tradition in western culture and how Phyllis Nagy’s Butterfly Kiss(1994)rewrites this tradition and undermines the patriarchy.It suggests Nagy’s play questions the common dishonest plays at that time,which fea?tures mother and daughter friendly with each other,and avoids the prevalent antagonism between mother and daughter in the real society.It considers how the play addresses this issue of maternal hatred and how Lily’s reconstruction reveals her act of matricide is actually a loving act coming from the desire to save her mother.The essay argues that Lily’s matricide rewrites the matricidal tra?dition in western culture and through accounting the oppression they suffer in the patriarchal society,the mothers and daughters in the play hope for a real connection that involves intimacy,love and nurturance.     

Gone with the Wind and Women’s Awakening

Scarlett who was the heroine in the world famous book Gone with the Wind,is regarded as one of the most impressive images in the world literature.Her charm lies in her perverse personality of independence and her spirit of freedom.This essay analyzes the characters of the heroine through highlighting women’s social status in the South during the age of Scarlett’s time.It could be safely concluded that Scarlett’s characters and her courage to face the difficulties during the war reveal the awakening of women’s self-consciousness and the realization of feminine value.     

Similarity between Joyce and His Hero Gabriel:Comment on The Dead

James Joyce’s short story "The Dead was one of the most popular short stories in Modern English Literature.To a certain degree,the hero Gabriel is the maturity Joyce.Gabriel’s epiphany to life and death in the Christmas midnight is also the author’s "the adventures of the mind".The paper attempts to explain the similarities between Gabriel and Joyce in terms of their complex national sentiments,political views and thei r relationship with their own wife.It also analysis the device of symbolism used in the short story.     

A Psychoanalysis of Heathcliff

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights ranks high on the list of major works of English literature.In the novel,the hero-Heathcliff’s passion to Catherine’s love is very impressive to the readers and the love is discussed in all aspects.The paper wants to analyze Heathcliff’s emotion from the Oedipus complex that exist in Heathcliff;How men choose women that they love;And id,ego and superego exist and are represented by Heathcliff,Catherine and Edgar in Wuthering Heights from Freud’s view on psychology.     

On William Blake’s Poem “The Lamb”

William Blake is the British famous painter in the period of the end of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century,He is also one of the most complicated and most special poets in the British literature history.He is also acknowledged as a religious visionary and mystic and one of the leading figure of the Romantic movement.His well-known poem "the lamb" is one in the colletion named Songs of Innocence.Through this poem,the poet sees the life with the child’s pure eyesight and a very world with love,kindness,compassion and happiness is described in it.The author will introduce this poet and analyze his poem "the lamb" with the three "s" literary approach in this paper.Three "s" means sense,sight and sound.     

A Comparative Analysis of Heroism in American Literature in 19th and 20th Centuries-Heroic Styles in Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea

In American literary history,two ocean novels,Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea,have always been comparatively studied.Much research focuses on the two protagonists,Ahab in Moby Dick and Santiago in The Old Manand the Sea,to praise their heroic spirit,which is shared with other commonly acknowledged heroes.However,unique heroic characteristics of Ahab and Santiago which are tinged with the time flavor are commonly neglected.Enlightenment,which took on different facets in the 19th and 20th centuries,and American social development in different stages contributed a lot to the forming of the two heroic styles.In conclusion,Ahab and Santiago,in the sense of the affirmation of one’s value and the defence of their dignity,are heroes,and meanwhile,their heroic behaviors are adapted to the whole atmosphere of a specific time stage.     

ABSTRACT

China＇s development road of the new era has experienced gradually the process from formation to spread and improvement： the CPC Central Committee taking Deng Xiaoping as the core brought order out of chaos and formed China＇s development road of the new period in the entirely reform; the CPC Central Committee having Jiang Zemin as the core spread China＇s development road of the new era in the overall layout and strategic steps, in spite of the international and domestic political turmoil; During Hu Jingtao as the general secretary, the CPC Central Committee improved China＇s development road of the new era in the world outlook and methodology, the overall goal of the layout and development goal and in the process of constructing a well-off society and accelerating the socialist modernization.     

Observation: The Impact of Teachers’Behavior in Teacher-students Interactions on Pupils’Motivation

To find out in what ways the teacher’s behavior in interactions could motivate students effectively,a two-day observation concerning the relationship between the teacher’s behavior in teacher-students interactions and students’motivations in the classroom was carried out in a primary school in Scotland.The author illustrated the basic content of classrooms observed and the methods of collecting and analyzing the data.Then,it focused on the discussion of the data and related literacy.Finally,it drew the conclusion that the positive feedback,explanations for the reason of doing the task and enthusiastic actions could effectively motivate students to learn.