{"title":"Re-exploration of the Mythological Archetype of Tess and Its Tragic Origin","authors":"","doi":"10.23977/langl.2023.061511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061511","url":null,"abstract":"Tess is the protagonist in Thomas Hardy's work Tess of the d'Urbervilles, which tells the story of a pure and kind girl whose life experience is full of tragedies. Considering the educational background of Thomas Hardy, especially since he once followed a mentor at Oxford University who was a master of classics, it is a great possibility that Tess was created based on an archetype in Greek mythology. Typically, Tess is compared with Medea, who killed Jason because of his betrayal and disloyalty. However, after analyzing the motivation for murder, Tess shares more similarities with Clytemnestra and Penelope, and this paper will give a detailed analysis of Tess and the characters in Greek mythology. The comparison will reveal the root of Tess's tragedy—a thousand years of taming and scrutinizing females.","PeriodicalId":223840,"journal":{"name":"Lecture Notes on Language and Literature","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135759580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translators' Visibility and Invisibility in the Chinese Literary Translation of Brave New World: A Corpus-based Study","authors":"","doi":"10.23977/langl.2023.061208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061208","url":null,"abstract":"In accordance with the quantitative analysis of all the empirical samples, namely, annotated chengyu and sizige and their corresponding English vocabulary in the selected materials – Brave New World and its two Chinese translations based on self-built parallel corpus in Sketch Engine, it can be found that domestication is the preferred strategy adopted by the two translators – Sun Fali and Chen Chao – in their texts, which represents their status – visibility – in the translation as well. Afterwards, the motivations of the translators' visibility are qualitatively analyzed from the viewpoints of translation aesthetics, Chang's theoretical statement on translator's visibility and invisibility in PRC, as well as the translators' personal linguistic habitus. The author hopes to promote a new methodology and perspective, namely, the corpus-based approach and typical four-character Chinese idioms (chengyu and sizige) into the field of translation studies, especially translator's visibility and invisibility.","PeriodicalId":223840,"journal":{"name":"Lecture Notes on Language and Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135500982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study of Goldblatt's English Translation of Big Breasts and Wide Hips from the Perspective of Rewriting Theory","authors":"","doi":"10.23977/langl.2023.061110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061110","url":null,"abstract":"One of the masterpieces of Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, Big Breasts and Wide Hips is a novel that combines magical realism with China's social history, which opens up a new frontier of literary creation and attracts extensive attention from many translators. Goldblatt is one of them. He is a famous American biologist, and his translation of Big Breasts and Wide Hips can be regarded as a classic work of translated literature. Based on Lefevere's rewriting theory, this paper studies the English version of Goldblatt's Big Breasts and Wide Hips from three aspects: ideology, poetics, and patronage, to provide some ideas for the translation of China's literary works.","PeriodicalId":223840,"journal":{"name":"Lecture Notes on Language and Literature","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135501000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Metaphorical Analysis of the Main Characters in Beloved from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics","authors":"","doi":"10.23977/langl.2023.061109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061109","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive linguistics views conceptual metaphor as a crucial link between language and thought, recognizing its significance not only as a means of artistic expression but also as a fundamental aspect of cognition and thinking. By delving into the cognitive mechanisms underlying human language, cognitive linguistics offers a fresh perspective for analyzing literary works. This paper, guided by the conceptual metaphor theory, aims to explore the presence of conceptual metaphor in Toni Morrison's Beloved. It seeks to unravel the reasons behind the author's extensive use of metaphor and to uncover the metaphorical meanings embedded within the main characters of the novel. Through this analysis, a deeper understanding of the novel's theme can be achieved. By examining the intricate web of metaphors woven throughout the text, we can gain insight into the characters' experiences, emotions, and relationships, ultimately shedding light on the profound messages conveyed by Morrison's masterful storytelling. The exploration of conceptual metaphor in Beloved not only enriches our understanding of the novel but also highlights the power of language and metaphor in shaping our thoughts and perceptions. This interdisciplinary approach, combining cognitive linguistics and literary analysis, opens up new avenues for studying and appreciating literature, allowing us to uncover hidden layers of meaning and appreciate the intricate interplay between language, thought, and creativity.","PeriodicalId":223840,"journal":{"name":"Lecture Notes on Language and Literature","volume":"272 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135501003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Ecological Discourse in Animal Novels from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics","authors":"","doi":"10.23977/langl.2023.061008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061008","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the ecological discourse of animal novels from ecological ethics, ecological aesthetics, and ecological reflection from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics. Taking the novel The Call of the Wild as an example, this paper delves into the transitive structure, ergative structure, and grammatical metaphors involved in the ecological discourse in the novel. By leveraging the power of literature, it calls for humanity to treat animals well and protect the environment.","PeriodicalId":223840,"journal":{"name":"Lecture Notes on Language and Literature","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135501004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aesthetic Pursuit and Religious Complex in Wilde's Fairy Tales","authors":"","doi":"10.23977/langl.2023.061310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061310","url":null,"abstract":"Oscar Wilde, a famous playwright, novelist, poet and critic, is the chief advocate of the aesthetic movement in the late19th century. His fairy tales show his aesthetic ideas—the \"art for art's sake\" viewpoint, emphasizing the pure beauty detached from real life, opposing utilitarianism in artistic pursuit. At the same time, they contain grumous religious color, reflecting strong Christian brotherhood and humanistic care. This paper is intended to probe into Oscar Wilde's religious complex in his fairy tales.","PeriodicalId":223840,"journal":{"name":"Lecture Notes on Language and Literature","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135501187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poetic Metonymy—Humanization in Cries in the Drizzle and Its English","authors":"","doi":"10.23977/langl.2023.061510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061510","url":null,"abstract":"Cries in the Drizzle [1]is a masterpiece of Yu Hua's novels. The success of Cries in the Drizzle lies in its use of cognitive metonymy. Yu Hua constructs unusual collocations with \"Adj + N\" constructions involving metonymy, such as \"stupid slobber\" and \"clever smile\" which abound in Cries in the Drizzle, so that the characters and plot in the novel are vivid and touching. The term \"metonymic humanization\" first appears in Zhang (2015)[2] modeling on psych \"Adj + N\" constructions, such as \"a small reluctant hand\". In the elaboration of this concept, Zhang (2023)[3] proposes that the vivid and touching description in a novel often emerges from embodiment of visual and auditory perceptions in metonymic humanization. According to Zhang, metonymic humanization shares the same mechanism with metonymy. Therefore, it is worthy of taking metonymic humanization approach to the analysis of literary texts. This study examines the unusual collocations with \"Adj + N\" constructions in Yu Hua's Cries in the Drizzle from the perspective of cognitive poetics, focusing on the mechanism of metonymic humanization. The findings of this study indicate that cognitive metonymy is an effective approach to literary texts and metonymic humanization is an effective way to analysis of unusual collocations in literary texts. And finally in the hope of revealing the hypothesis Zhang (2023)[3] proposed that both Chinese and English should be metonymic.","PeriodicalId":223840,"journal":{"name":"Lecture Notes on Language and Literature","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135611051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Proximization Study of Environmental Discourse under Proximization Theory","authors":"","doi":"10.23977/langl.2023.060310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060310","url":null,"abstract":"The ecological environment problem is a common problem at present. Environmental discourse can provide the public with the seriousness of environmental problems and the progress of coping with environmental problems, which is conducive to the promotion of public environmental awareness and the legitimization of the future preventive measures. The study is guided by the proximization theory so as to explore the approach strategies in environmental discourse. The paper tries to expand the application scope of the discourse types of the proximization theory, and finds that the discourse mainly uses the spacial proximization and axiological proximization to depict environmental threat.","PeriodicalId":223840,"journal":{"name":"Lecture Notes on Language and Literature","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135839485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Applicability of Zipf's Law in Report Text","authors":"","doi":"10.23977/langl.2023.061009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061009","url":null,"abstract":"Zipf's Law, discovered by Harvard linguist Zipf in the 1940s, is an empirical Law reflecting the general rule of word frequency distribution in language. It describes the link between word frequency (F) and its frequency rank (R) as F×R=C (constant)[1]. A large number of studies have been conducted to test the applicability of Zipf's Law in various languages and diverse text types. However, as language keeps developing and changing, there is a continuous need for the verification of Zipf's Law in the most up-to-date materials and texts in different languages. In addition, different categories of texts should be taken into consideration. Based on this, this study selected the report of the 20th National Congress and its multilingual translations, which contain English, Spanish, and Russian, as our research objects. We used AntConc to detect the distribution of their word frequency and found that all of these report texts of four languages conform to Zipf's Law, and there is a slight difference in terms of fitness degree between the Russian text and the other three. We assumed that it is mainly caused by the limited text length and the translation process.","PeriodicalId":223840,"journal":{"name":"Lecture Notes on Language and Literature","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135500736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practical Research on the Construction of Chinese-Yi-English Trilingual Parallel Corpus","authors":"","doi":"10.23977/langl.2023.061311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061311","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the language data and research starting point of more than 200000 pieces of trilingual Chinese-Yi-English corpora collected, sorted, and translated by the Minzu Languages Information Processing Lab of Sichuan Province over the years, the paper proposes a plan for the construction of a trilingual bilingual parallel corpus and conducts practical tests and case data analysis. This paper explores and attempts to construct the Yi language speech database from the perspective of multilingualism.","PeriodicalId":223840,"journal":{"name":"Lecture Notes on Language and Literature","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135501198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}