News headline is an important part of news discourse, and a symbol to premise the success of news production. In English news and headlines, deixis are widely used, illustrating the close relationship between language...
Deixis are the linguistic expressions employed to denote the indexicality between linguistic symbols and the objects in the real world.Their referents vary and depend on context for specification.The interpretation of...
Cat in the rain is a short novel written by the famous American writer Hemingway. The story is simple in terms of plots while reveals some thought-provoking concerns on women that express the struggle for women social...
It is known to all that distinct choices of deixis can reflect various meanings underlying the surface level. In addition to conveying a specific reference and inference, it can reflect the people's mental activities....
This note aims at clarifying the relation holding or not holding between deixis and indexicality, and then elaborating a new model based on the Danish semiotic enunciation theory that could also account for reference....
Wano, spoken by about 7,000 native speakers, is a Papuan language of Trans-New Guinea Phylum, Dani-Kwerba Stock, which is found in the interior of Papua of the regency of Puncak Jaya. The language is closely related t...
This article first outlines the principle of a cognitive semiotics,and in this framework presents a sign classification taking into consideration the crucial importance of time.It then offers a stratified interpretati...
granted by "On the Subjectivity of Spatial Deixis in the Language of English News"(No.YJSZ201403) of Graduate Innovation Foundation of Yantai University(GIFYTU);"On Speech Meaning from Communicative Information Perspecive(10DWXJ07)" of Shandong Social Science Progran;"Research on News Evaluation Based on English-Chinese Parallel Corpora" of Shandong College Humanities;Social Science Project "Analysis of Media English Evaluation Driven by Corpus" Project of Young Teachers Fund of Yantai University
The thesis discusses how subjectivity is shown through spatial deixis in the language of English news.Based on Langacker' s Construal Theory,especially the aspect of construal perspective,the thesis employs the concep...