The purpose of this paper is to explore three main rhetorical devices employed by the The Sutra of Hui Neng in terms of metaphor,pun,and parody.The Sutra of Hui Neng records the zen thoughts rather than the language.I...
The language used in the context of network media features variation, flexibility, and comprehensiveness, in which parody is one of the most employed devices. Modern cognitive science prefers to take parody as a cogni...
The Conceptual Integration Theory was first formally put forward in 1997 by Fauconnier and Turner. According to it, there is a conceptual blending network comprised of four mental spaces: Input space Ⅰ, Input space ...
This paper describes parody as an effective teaching and learning practice in Advanced English course offered to English major juniors and seniors. The objective of this course is to help heighten students towards a m...
The Adventures of Augie March (2006) has been approached from various perspectives by critics since its publication. It has been studied from the point of view of culture, religion, history, modernism, postmodemism,...