Pub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.13189/lls.2020.080302
Ya-Ju Yeh
The Little Stranger (2009) depicts the story of the old gentry Ayres family in Hundreds Hall, an eighteenth-century magnificent estate that has lasted long past its former glory in the late 1940s Warwickshire. Faraday, the first-person narrator in the novel, a country physician summoned to treat a new maid in Hundreds Hall, became entwined with the obscure fate of the estate thirty years ago. Through deliberate contacts with the Ayres family, Faraday gradually befriends them. Yet Faraday's frequent visits and aggressive interference with the household chores triggers a sort of temporal disorder from the Ayres family. Since the house is intertwined and laden with secrets and tricks, as if there is a sinister presence, the Ayres family members lapse into their underlying fear and anxiety so that their lives oddly fall apart; at last, it leads to the inevitable collapse of the Hall. This paper examines different layers of temporal disorder which exerts profound influence on the protagonists in Hundreds Hall in The Little Stranger.
《小陌生人》(The Little Stranger, 2009)讲述了百年庄园(Hundreds Hall)里老绅士艾尔斯家族的故事，这是一座18世纪的宏伟庄园，在20世纪40年代末的沃里克郡(Warwickshire)，它的昔日辉煌已经过去很久了。小说中的第一人称叙述者法拉第是一位乡村医生，三十年前，他被召来治疗百人大厅的一位新女仆，与这座庄园的模糊命运交织在一起。通过刻意与艾尔斯一家接触，法拉第逐渐成为他们的朋友。然而，法拉第的频繁来访和对家务的粗暴干涉引发了艾尔斯一家的一种时间紊乱。因为房子交织在一起，充满了秘密和诡计，好像有一个阴险的存在，艾尔斯家庭成员陷入他们潜在的恐惧和焦虑，使他们的生活奇怪地分崩离析;最后，它导致了大厅不可避免的崩溃。本文探讨了不同层次的时间紊乱对《小陌生人》中百人厅的主人公产生的深刻影响。
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Pub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.13189/lls.2020.080301
Sileshi Berhanu
The main objective of this study was to assess lexical variations in the context of Afan Oromo and Literature Department’s Research Methods course offered at the three public universities (Adama Science and Technology-ASTU, Addis Ababa-AAU and Ambo-AU) in Ethiopia. In these universities, particular course offering instructors were among the participants on the one hand. The research related books locally published ones, the relevant course outlines, including the modules prepared as supportive materials and students’ thesis’s at the three public universities, “Wiirtuu”-magazines for Afan Oromo Standardization Volumes 1-11 (1995-2014) were considered were used as secondary data sources , on the other hand. Instruments applied to gather data were the relevant document scrutiny, interviews and focus group discussions. After the assessment made, significant lexical variations were portrayed as the research findings. The course offering instructors and their respective students in the study sites were also lacked consistent use of these technical terms. And some of these varied terms create misunderstandings to the readers. Thus, it was suggested by the researcher that the instructors’ team work s pirit within and among the universities need to be enhanced in action so that standardized terms could be produced and accessed in coherence to respective users . And a responsible and working organ would also be in p lace to facilitate the creation of standard research methods course related technical terms.
本研究的主要目的是评估埃塞俄比亚三所公立大学(Adama Science and Technology-ASTU, Addis Ababa-AAU和Ambo-AU)提供的Afan Oromo和文学系研究方法课程背景下的词汇变化。在这些大学中，一方面，特定课程的讲师是参与者之一。另一方面，当地出版的研究相关书籍，相关课程大纲，包括作为辅助材料准备的模块和三所公立大学的学生论文，“Wiirtuu”- Afan Oromo标准化杂志卷1-11(1995-2014)被认为是次要数据来源。用于收集数据的手段是有关的文件审查、访谈和焦点小组讨论。评估完成后，显著的词汇变化被描述为研究结果。提供课程的教师和他们各自的学生在研究地点也缺乏对这些专业术语的一致使用。其中一些不同的术语给读者造成了误解。因此，研究者建议，大学内部和大学之间的教师团队合作精神需要在行动中得到加强，以便标准化术语的产生和对各自用户的连贯访问。此外，还应设立一个负责任的工作机构，促进制定与课程有关的标准研究方法和技术术语。
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Pub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.13189/lls.2020.080307
Linda Garosi
This paper aims to study the Italian ghost story entitled A Dead Man's Bone, included in Tarchetti's Fantastic Tales (1869) to illustrate, by means of this specific case, both the way and the purpose of the reception of the Gothic and Fantastic in Italian narrative. For this reason, it is necessary to frame the textual analysis within the historical and cultural coordinates of the post-Unification years, in order to, first of all, clarify the fact that the operation ought to be evaluated in a specific ideological and compositional context rather than from a thematic point of view. In this regard, the study of A Dead Man's Bone intends to highlight that the most relevant outcomes of Tarchetti's rewriting of a ghost story by Theophile Gautier have to be appreciated as the opening for new experiments in narrative forms which root in a rapidly changing situation and, nurtured by the disillusionment of the post-unification years. Moreover, the author's use of codes and conventions of a specific subgenre of modern Fantastic, such as the ghost story, is also related with his direct involvement in pseudoscientific movements as Mesmerism and Spiritism. It goes without saying that the author's effort to innovate narrative forms is meant to convey a personal interpretation of the present by means of a new kind of realism in art.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.13189/lls.2020.080204
Mengmeng Tang
Chinese and English have typological differences in marking the temporal categories of verbs in sentences with multiple verbs. The perfective morpheme "le"is conventionally used after V2 to mark the completion of the event-continuum represented by both V1 and V2 in Chinese pivotal or serial-events sentences. In reminiscent English sentences, V1 inflects with tense and takes the suffix "-ed". The current study aims to investigate if the contrast between English and Chinese influences Chinese English as foreign language (CFL) learners’ acquisition of “le” in pivotal and serial-events sentences. Via an analysis in HSK dynamic written composition corpus, we found misuses about mis-positioned "le" and lexical collocations in pivotal and serial-events sentences. The results showed that English CFL learners were influenced by English past tense marker "-ed" in the production of "le" in pivotal and serial-events sentences. L2 proficiency was not an influential factor in misusages but played a role in the total usage of these structures, i.e., high-proficiency learners produced these sentences more frequently than low-proficiency learners. It suggests that English CFL learners may have used the tense cue in their L1 to compose Chinese sentences with multiple verbs, and with the development of L2 proficiency, they tended to use pivotal or serial-events sentences more frequently. This finding reveals the morpho-syntactic transfer from English L1 to Chinese L2, contributes to the theories in second language acquisition in general, and gives pedagogical implications on Chinese L2 teaching.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.13189/lls.2020.080203
Ya-Ju Yeh
Affinity (1999), the British writer Sarah Waters' second novel, unfolds a suspenseful romance between two heroines, Margaret Prior and Selina Dawes in the setting of Millbank Gaol, one of London's most notorious prisons in the 1870s. Margaret Prior, an upper-class spinster, becomes a lady visitor of the prison, eager to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by an apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina takes a material strategy in order to gain Margaret's trust, which is, delivering Margaret something as gifts in the way of 'spirits'. Those objects are nothing more than ordinary ones regarding Selina, for instance, her own rope of hair or her neck collar. The personal possession, which serves as the very metonymy of Selina's affection or even herself, converts Margaret to believe in Selina's real spirit practice. Objects of possession assuredly function as a means of expressing the self or the way one lives and experiences so that they exert profound effects on manoeuvring the affinity relation. This paper aims to delve into distinct revelations of objects possessed and interpreted by the protagonists, examining how possession becomes an embedded expression of class politics in the prison and how objects involve mistress and maid relations resulting in diverse consequences of intimacy.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.13189/lls.2020.080202
Rosario Pellegrino
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the impact of Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) on the Neuro-linguistic Approach (NLA), which is the former's most natural application in the teaching field. NLA is not envisaged as a substitute for the language teaching approaches that have emerged in recent years, but aims essentially to define the so-called perceptive channels indicated by the acronym V.A.K.O.G. which underpin every form of learning and language learning in particular. On the basis of the studies of Claude Germain and Joan Netten inspired by the research of Michel Paradis into bilingualism, the principle of litteratie (information literacy) is adopted in order to establish the relationships between harmony and anchoring, and between the communicative approach and NLA. References and studies on neurological pathologies find that declarative memory and procedural memory follow different processes and that knowledge and ability follow distinct cerebral paths. Harmony between individuals and anchoring to subjective elements lead researchers to set up efficacious and long-lasting learning paths.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.13189/lls.2020.080205
Zhong Ying
This study investigates the relationship between time and memory in McEwan's novel Atonement and the role the three different kinds of time figuration play in constructing the harmony among characters, authors and readers. Atonement is another masterpiece after First Love, Last Rites and Amsterdam, for it gains several literary prizes: the Smith Award, the National Book Critics Circle and Santiago European novel Award. In Atonement, McEwan describes the protagonist Briony's memory dilemma through disrupting the linearity and stability of narrative and readers are often caught in a Foucault-like maze in reading. Ricoeur's interpretative theory of mimesis and figuration provides a new hermeneutic dimension to the interpretation of the text and an alternative perspective to the reader. In fact, the understanding of the novel can be helped by the dynamic cycle of figuration chains including prefiguration, configuration and refiguration. In prefiguration, the underlying reasons for the central event in Briony's memory are introduced. The key links between historical and individual events, the past and the present, the main and messy plots scattered throughout the novel could be organized by emplotment in configuration. In refiguration, Briony's reconstruction of the same events is achieved by meta-narrative strategy. To sum up, the time figuration model contributes to the interpretation of Atonement and the analysis of the figuration strategy provides possible spiritual sustenance for the child who experiences traumatic events in the early stages.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.13189/lls.2020.080102
Zhao Cheng
Updike's masterpiece, using skillful realism, succeeded in drawing a panoramic picture of the American society from the 1950s to the early 1990s in the " Rabbit Tetralogy ." Updike strives to reflect the changes in contemporary American social culture for nearly half a century from the "rabbit" Harry, the everyman of the American society and the life experiences of his ordinary family. " Rabbit Tetralogy " truly reflects the living conditions of the contradictions of contemporary Americans: endless pursuit of free life or independent self and the embarrassment and helplessness of it; the customary life and hedonism under the traditional values, the intense collision of self-indulgent lifestyles inspired by thought. The endless pursuit of so-called freedom and self is bred. As the greatest masterpiece, John Updike's " Rabbit Tetralogy " shows readers nearly half a century of the American’s social life, and provides literary critics listless raw material as well, and becomes a beloved apple in the mind’s eye of Chinese scholars. This paper, adopting a comparative method, combs the historical clue of the study in the past three decades, two different phases and the respective research results and the main viewpoints are summarized and presented. Also this paper probes into the main problems in this field, i.e. the lack of sufficient research perspectives, relative research redundancy and the lack of communication between home and abroad, etc. and engages to point out the direction and tendency of future research. Further studies are suggested to conduct via literary space theory, etc. to enhance the study of " Rabbit Tetralogy ".
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Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.13189/lls.2019.070601
Suwei Wu
In line with the multimodal view of language, some studies found a relation between gesture and a fundamental grammatical category - transitivity. However, previous studies have simply employed the data of elicited narratives, which were unnatural and not interactive, and they were restricted to a few particular transitive and intransitive events. Against this background, this study employs more natural and interactive data – conversations – and considers a larger variety of grammatical constructions which are basic and frequently used in spoken language, including high-transitive, low-transitive, intransitive and copular constructions. Specifically, using a large amount of conversational data from the Red Hen database, this study examines the use of gestures accompanying the four constructions, and the question to what extent the gestures preferred relate to the ways of conceptualizing these constructions. Results indicate that the use of gestures accompanying the four constructions shows distinctions in the ways in which speakers conceptualize these constructions. These results suggest that these constructions seem to be multimodal in nature, which provides further empirical support for the multimodal stance that gesture is part of language.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.13189/lls.2019.070602
Pinggong Zhang
In his cardinal work, Orientalism, the Western Conception of the Orient and other works, Edward Said reconfigures the historical construction of European and Euro-American discourses about Near-East civilizations, cultures and peoples. By defining the "Oriental" study as discourse, it can be examined within the power structure of hierarchies. Said’s repeated utilization of Foucault’s theory about the relationship between power and discourse led him to an examination of the cultural imperialism. With abundant references and illustrations, he has demonstrated how Orientalism was created alongside the European cultural penetration into the lands of the "Other" and how it was justified by various disciplines and practices. Scholars in China have now criticized the ideology of Orientalism and offered their unique reflections on the subject matter in the contemporary time.
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