the funding by Nanjing Youth Literature Talent Programme forher translation and research work.
Poetry is often seen as the ultimate challenge for a literary translator.Why it is so and how in reality translators manage to accomplish this feat remain to be explored.This article contributes a new way of understan...
Peirce's final statements on the sign were consigned in various ways over a hundred years ago as a form of logic,a branch of the science of enquiry based upon observation.This means inevitably that some parts of the t...
The importance of argumentation in academic writing,while historically recognised,has arguably lost prominence alongside the rapid expansion of higher education since the early 1990s in the UK.This has been exacerbate...
Story time and narrative time are two interrelated issues in the research of drama.In Waiting for Godot,mere explorations in the perplexing systems of story time cannot pin down the signifieds of time,while incontigui...
This research was supported by a fund from Social Science Foundation of Soochow University(Award reference:NH33711320);a fund from High Education Teaching Reform Foundation of Soochow University(Award reference:5731502420)。
The story continuationwriting task(SCWT)is anewly emerging proficiency test of National Matriculation English Test(NMET)in three provinces in China.Nevertheless,little is known with respect to how test-takers enhance ...
In the last two decades of his career,Saussure continually tried to clarify the status of signs,considering however that it was an “absurd task” attacking this “odd entity” consisting of the association of two het...
As is well known,modern semiotic theory is based on two models of the sign—the Saussurean and the Peircean.While the latter has been shown to be much more tenable as a theory of semiosis,the Saussurean model cannot b...
The study of language is based either on the word or on the sentence as basic units.Ferdinand de Saussure opted for the word;other linguists later preferred the sentence or chose to ignore the difference between word ...
This paper elaborates on some of Saussure’s reflections on the structure of signs,and the role these signs play in the constitution of conscious thought.In the notes of La double essence,Saussure argued that the sign...
Beginning with a few of Saussure’s ideas from Course of General Linguistics;the author tracks the development of money as signs fulfilling their pecuniary function.The principle of the arbitrariness of linguistic sig...