A Book Review of Five Treatises on Chinese Grand Grammar
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2022
Pages:
31-33
Received:
6 June 2022
Accepted:
23 June 2022
Published:
30 June 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.cls.20220802.11
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Abstract: Shen J-X’s monograph Five Treatises on Chinese Grand Grammar is a further reflection on the Chinese grammar following his proposals of the Super-Noun model for Chinese word classes and the parallel model of Chinese syntax. Against the tendency to study syntax, semantics and pragmatics separately, Shen argues that Chinese Grand Grammar involves a comprehensive consideration of prosodic, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors simultaneously. Basically, Shen accepts the proposal that the predominant and primary unit in Chinese language is zi (word-syllable) which is monosyllable and carries a specific tone and meaning. This fact accounts for a package of difference and contrast between the artistic and poetic Chinese language and the word-based English language. Taking daily conversations as the prototype of discourse, Shen naturally explains the properties of continuity and dynamism of Chinese run-on utterances.
Abstract: Shen J-X’s monograph Five Treatises on Chinese Grand Grammar is a further reflection on the Chinese grammar following his proposals of the Super-Noun model for Chinese word classes and the parallel model of Chinese syntax. Against the tendency to study syntax, semantics and pragmatics separately, Shen argues that Chinese Grand Grammar involves a co...
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The Impact of Circularity Shift on Reporting Genres: Functionality vs. Virtuality
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2022
Pages:
34-41
Received:
17 July 2022
Accepted:
11 August 2022
Published:
14 September 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.cls.20220802.12
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Abstract: This paper sets out to examine not only how genre colony is elaborated with its way of arrangement in a meticulous and complicated order but also how collision with online virtual reporting is evoked by its sets of intricate design. A combination of the generic moves of a released American diplomatic document, circulating confidentially and the narrative process is conducted in order to unravel reporting evidence and authorial tangibility with a dichotomized framework of functionality and virtuality. It is found that the examined document essentially loses its initial perlocutionary effects by the intrusion of the mediating reporting act and by virtue of the free direct narrative style from the very beginning at the generic entry. The online representative mode blurs the content of the original wording of the document and the act of its reporting. It is due to the repercussion of the deviant and the virtual reporters on the course of the intended meaning for the American executive institutions. Finally, it is concluded that the act of deviating an online document from its original circulation attenuates its official executive directives and more importantly, reduces it to a virtual generic category whose dissemination as a clone genre is opened to an ambiguous and an entangled online reporting.
Abstract: This paper sets out to examine not only how genre colony is elaborated with its way of arrangement in a meticulous and complicated order but also how collision with online virtual reporting is evoked by its sets of intricate design. A combination of the generic moves of a released American diplomatic document, circulating confidentially and the nar...
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