A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Political News Discourse-A Case Study of News Report about Iraq

Critical Metaphor Analysis is a new method of critical discourse analysis. It aims at revealing attitudes, believes, emo?tions and ideologies of a specific group by comprehensively adopting the knowled...     

The role of a digital engineering platform in appropriating the creation of new work-related mind-set and organisational discourse in a large multi-national company

This paper reports on a case study involving a strategic and innovative approach to creation of an in-house multifaceted digital engineering platform (the DEP) in overcoming a number of organisational problems at a multinational engineering company. The DEP was to be used strategically for simplifying the operational complexity and to create and appropriate new work-related mind-set and new organisational discourse to achieve homogenous working across the organisation, which is a huge challenge. The need for this system emerged from the need to resolve many organisational services related problems that carried phenomenal amount of processes, health and safety risks and to regulate, and, control the running of engineering project. Research data were collected using a longitudinal case study approach over a period of six months. In order to make sense of how the DEP helped the organisation, the study used certain elements of Extended Structuration Theory as a lens to assess the case study. This research discovered that the DEP succeeded in creating and appropriating work-related mind-set and organisational discourse. It also had real influence on working processes and employees at all levels while encouraging transparency, responsiveness, agility and accountability. It continues to help the organisation to govern, manage and maintain good standard of service but many barriers still remain.     

A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis：Taking a Car Advertisement as an Example

This study is a multimodal discourse analysis of an initiative advertisement of the New Cayman released by the official website of Porsche, Follow the Code of Curve, based on the three-dimensional conc...     

Effects of fluency training on reading competence in primary school children: The role of prosody

Reading fluency defined as speed, accuracy, and prosody, is a critical component of reading development. The purpose of this research was to compare the efficacy of automaticity versus prosody programmes on reading comprehension. The study included 122 Spanish primary-school children (74 second and 48 fourth graders), randomly assigned to one of three groups: (a) automaticity training, which consisted of repeated reading with a focus on speed and accuracy plus phonological and orthographic awareness activities; (b) prosody training, which consisted of repeated reading with a focus on expressiveness plus prosody sensitivity activities; and a (c) ‘no treatment’ control group. Multiple measures were used to determine pre-post training performance in reading fluency—automaticity and prosody—and comprehension. Prosody training proved superior to automaticity training in promoting automaticity and prosody. Prosody and automaticity training in fourth graders resulted in superior sentence comprehension compared to controls. The importance of prosody for reading development in primary school is discussed.     

论篇章结构教学法与短文写作

文章探讨了篇章结构教学法的特点，分析了篇章结构教学法适应的范围及条件，并根据教学实践的经验积累，把在英文短文写作中的中西方思维方式作了对比，提出了篇章结构教学法在英文短文写作中的实施建议与注意问题。     

语篇信息性与外语阅读教学

信息已经成为信息时代社会发展的重要资源之一。不同领域的学者从各自的角度对信息作出了不同的论断。语篇信息性解读的依据是理解，语篇信息性解读与阅读理解，两者之间关系密切。在语言学界，篇章的信息性理论研究已经得到关注并开始应用于教学。本文从语篇信息理论出发，探讨理论在阅读理解中的应用，旨在提高学生在阅读中更有效、更准确获取信息的实际能力。     

普通科技语篇中的人际意义

不同潜在的读者对科技英话语域特征造成的影响开始受到人们的重视。本文将主要通过作者在人称,语气和情态中作出的选择对普通科技语篇做一个粗略的分析,探索科技语篇中的人际意义。     

X5045在智能低压综合保护装置中的应用

X5045芯片是美国Xicor公司生产的集“看门狗”定时器、电压监控和串行E2PROM三项功能于一体的专用集成芯片。本文介绍了X5045芯片的结构、功能、工作原理以及X5045在智能低压综合保护装置中的应用,给出了X5045芯片与AT89S52单片机的硬件接口电路,编写出相应C51应用程序,并成功应用于低压综合保护装置中,取得了令人满意的效果。     

浅析CET-4听力理解题与答题技巧

大学英语的教学目的是“使学生能以英语为工具,获取所需信息”。听车理解,即“听而理解意思”。在考试中要求考生边听、边理解、边阅读、边猜测（推断）,边作选择。本文通过对大学生英语CET－4听力理解题的分析谈一些答题技巧。     

汉语口语交谈中的话语重叠现象

本文运用萨克斯提出的重叠的概念和话轮转换理论,对汉语口语交谈中的重叠现象进行考察、分析。从发生重叠的根源上归纳了常见重叠的类型,并对重叠者在重叠发生后的反应、重叠持续的时间和对重叠时受损话语的修复等问题作了初步探讨。