With the development of the major country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics,diplomatic discourse,as an important part of building China’s international discourse power,has attracted much attention.Personificatio...
From the variety of types of portraiture,there evolved the imaging of a self-portrait as we see in Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Barbara Longhi of Ravenna(1552-1638).The self-portrait is a unique work of art,an int...
The present study is part of the Chinese MOE Key Research Project of Humanities and Social Science(Project No.16JJD740006)conducted by the Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
Personification is widely acknowledged for its central role in the understanding of a nation.However,empirical evidence of its pervasiveness in authentic language data is lacking.In a selfbuilt corpus of news report,t...
This study provides a multimodal discourse analysis of Saudi Arabic TV commercials from a linguistic and visual semiotic perspective,linking communication,language,and culture.The study draws on pragmatics,semiotics,a...
Lavinia Fontana’s(1552-1614)Galatea and Cherubs riding the Stormy Waves on a Sea Monster(aka Galatea)of 1590 is an intriguing mythological painting.Being painted on copper,it is a fine example of Lavinia’s explorati...
Shakespeare ‘s sonnet 116 is one of the most famous sonnet for its high praise for true love and it is also seen as an expression of Shakespeare’s love attitude. This article takes sonnet 116 as an example to show t...
The first section of this essay deals with an iconographical analysis of Lavinia Fontana’s(1552-1614)Prudence or Personification of Wisdom of 1590,while the second part provides an iconological interpretation,demonst...
the National Social Science Fund Key Project--Oceania Literature Research in Multicultural Perspective(16ZDA200); the National Social Science Fund Project-A Critical History of Contemporary Australian Literature(12BWW037).
Through a detailed text examination,this paper contends that albeit Kate Grenville'sThe Secret River is dedicated to interrogate white actions in the colonial past and expects to contribute to the process of reconcili...
On Sep. 2 and 3, 2015, two China-related events happened almost simultaneously in the east and west hemispheres across the Pacific Ocean: one is China's V-day Parade in Tiananmen Square; the other is the Peking Oper...
Chinese culture should "go global" through personification. The Chinese culture here refers to not only the Chinese art, but in a broader sense the national culture of the whole countD: Foreigners are familiar with...