随着全球化国际形势的演变和我国高等英语教育形势的发展变化,外语教师开始不断深化大学英语教育教学改革.高等教育的国际化提升了大学英语教学的战略地位,频繁的国际间的合作与交流也增加了英语人才的需求.为进一步适应时代发展和满足社会对英语高素质人才的需求,我国高校开展了大学英语课程新课改,改革教学理念和教学模式,增加与时俱进的内容,采用丰富的教学方法和手段,旨在提升我国高校大学英语教学质量和教学水平.为此,由张铭撰写的《当代大学英语教学理论与研究》一书,对新时期的大学英语教学形势和创新方法探究具有一定参考价值.作者从多角度分析了当代大学英语教学现状,探讨了新时期大学英语教学的新形势;并结合英语教学实例提出了大学英语教学改革与创新方法.还深入探究了英语与汉语、外国文化与中国文化、语言知识与语言技能、教师与学生等之间的关系.

语篇建构可以通过不同的路径加以展开,而因果关系表征路径是最常用的方法之一.基于小句关系理论,对BNC语料库中高频因果关系because小句关系进行研究,可以清楚直观地体现出because小句关系表征路径对篇章宏观建构所起的统领和意义延伸的作用,在微观层面上触发篇章建构特殊句式和词汇网络.因果关系表征路径对语篇建构产生影响,也为其他逻辑关系表征在篇章建构过程中的功能分析提供了新的视角,对语言教学与语言学习也具有重要的理论意义和实践意义.

伴随着"一带一路"倡议的实施与深入,市场对翻译人才的需求越来越旺盛,对翻译人才培养也就越来越受到教育工作者的重视.如何培养高质量的翻译人才,特别是翻译硕士教学应该如何设计;如何处理语言知识学习和翻译技能训练之间的关系;语言学理论在翻译教学中应如何发挥作用等一系列问题,就显得尤为重要.文章从语篇分析相关理论入手,分析了翻译文本的可能性、 自然度及可接受性问题.研究表明,语言学相关理论,特别是语篇分析理论有助于提高翻译水平和指导翻译实践,并对翻译工作和翻译人才培养课程设置提供借鉴.

This paper aims to introduce and compare two hedging structures involving the but-clause: the prewarning structure and the self-repair structure. It was found that the mitigating function can be realized by particular syntactic configurations. The hedging act in the prewarning structure serves as a prompting in advance to prepare the addressee for the forthcoming offensive acts or unexpected events, while the hedging act in the self-repair structure functions as a subsequent redress for the preceding face-threatening act.

This study compares several representative general contrastive discourse markers (CDMs) in English and Chinese in that they are usually taken as synonyms by foreign language learners, however, as a matter of fact, they are not interchangeable on many occasions. It is found that those general CDMs, although similar in sense, they are distinctive in many aspects such as formality, semantic focus, contrastive force and specific functions, etc. Students need to heed those distinctions and apply general CDMs appropriately in contexts.

Metaphor can be explored not only at the word and sentence level, but also at the discourse level. Sometimes discourses are decided by root metaphors which help the topic development and form a systemic framework of the discourse. That is, metaphor can help organize and unify the parts of an article and play a cohesive function in text construction. What's more, metaphor and its cohesive function in discourse have important implications for language teaching and learning, especially, in the area of reading comprehension and writing.

文章主要探讨了词汇的板块性(即词块)与词汇搭配的关系,说明了词汇搭配是“词块”依赖生存的先决条件.词汇搭配的生成具有任意性,使用特点具有弥漫性,其解释具有理论颠覆性.因此我们不得不重新审视“词块”在语言构建中的作用,探讨语法与词汇的关系和语言的本质,以及“词块”在外语教学中的重要地位等.

翻译的步骤包括原文理解、表达和校核。本文根据中文课程描述的语篇分析探讨其英译的过程，在语篇分析中，通过对中文课程描述的句法和词法进行研究，发现其特点，并根据这些特点有针对性地探讨课程描述英译的步骤。本文的目的在于强调文体模式对翻译的影响，即通过关注原文理解和翻译步骤的严格实施进行翻译，而不仅仅局限于探究翻译技巧。

The paper studies the requesting strategies in letters of job application under the frameworks of move analysis and speech acts theories. Data is collected from 20 English-speaking professionals seeking a business course lecturer position in a Chinese university. Imperatives, performatives, want statements and hints are identified as the major strategies distributed in the core moves; all direct requests are modified internally by lexical or syntactic downgraders (politeness marker, conditional clause, subjunctive, tense, aspect etc.), and indirect requests are modified externally with supportive moves (appreciation, grounder, promise) to mitigate the imposition force.

Audience in the domain of rhetoric is characterized with distinctive dynamic features.These features manifest themselves not only in the falls and rises of audience in its historical evolution,but also in the authenticity of audience,the role played by audience in the construction of discourse and the relationship between the rhetor and the audience.In addition,the emergence of the dynamic features of audience is not a coincidence;rather,it is planted in the rhetoric philosophy basis of audience,i.e.the divergent interpretations of truth.

语篇逻辑语义关系的构建过程是一个复杂的认知过程,直接影响语篇语义表达的连贯与自然.受汉语思维的影响,中国大学生英语写作语篇中并列结构连接词“and”出现的频率很高.然而,仔细研究就会发现很多由“and”连接的句法形式上呈现并列结构的表达,语义上却显示出伪对等关系的特点.因此针对二语学习者英语写作语篇中“and”的用法研究,会为写作教学中逻辑语义关系的构建带来启发.

This paper gives an overview of the empirical studies of hedges and boosters made in English and Chinese written discourses, both at home and abroad. Inspiring results are introduced and limitations and possibilities of further research are elaborated.

本研究系统梳理了对比修辞领域内对汉语基本篇章模式“起承转合”的研究，发现学界内对“起承转合”结构的认知本身也呈现了起承转合式的发展脉络，即从最初西方学者眼中的“异类”并对中国学生英语写作产生负面影响到与英语最小篇章模式的异形同构。最后，为了更加系统地进行英汉篇章模式对比研究，作者指出基于自建小型语料库和不同体裁的研究是必要的。

Metaphor is no longer just a matter of language, but is conceived as one of the chief cognitive structures by which we understand the unknown and abstract through the known or concrete. The present paper aims at exploring the different functions of metaphor.

元话语在定义、界定原则、分类模式、功能界限和研究地位等方面一直存在争议.从功能认知视角分析,部分元话语带有命题因素,在行使语篇或人际功能的同时,也表达一定的概念意义.同时,人际和语篇功能无重叠问题,因前者是外在功能,而后者是内在功能,不在同一层面.由此,其研究地位应当有所提升,元话语不是外加的辅助工具,而是话语在特定语境约束下的内在需求.

Hoey believes that the problem-solution is one of the most basic discourse patterns(or the minimum discourse pattern)in text construction. In light of the functional and rhetorical theories, this paper analyzes the problem-solution pattern and its lexico-grammatical features, as realized in 50 English research article abstracts. It was found that the problem-solution pattern can be regarded as the most popular and basic discourse pattern in research article abstracts, though with its unique features and particularities. The authors hope that the current research can help to interpret the structure of the research article abstract construction and contribute to the study of the writing and publication of better research articles.

This study investigated how advanced Chinese students of English construct clause relations when construing English texts. A deconstructed text was distributed in class to 42 graduate students of linguistics, who were required to organize the clauses into a conceivably good text. The result suggests that these students seemed to rely on explicit cohesive words (anaphoric references and repetitions) rather than meaning relations in text construction. They seemed to have difficulties in using cataphoric contextual information and the popular discourse pattern from general to specific. This study calls for an enhanced awareness of logico-semantic relations in teaching and learning text construction.

This research focuses on the construction of "luo + v.". First, it is suggested that the part of speech of "luo" in the construction has undergone a diachronic development from verb to adjective. Then the cognitive mechanism and semantic features of "luo +V." are discussed from the functional and cognitive perspectives based on corpus data. Moreover, the features of the verbs admitted to the construction and the conditions for the admission are summarized and illustrated in detail. Based on the notions of "system" and "meaning potential" proposed by Halliday and "conceptual dependence" suggested by Langacker, we believe that every verb is a hierarchical network with the process as its core and multiple choices of elements around to be highlighted in particular contexts. The concept projection of "luo" is subjective and dynamic. And the semantic coercion of the construction plays a significant role in the admission of verbs. This research will bring inspiration to the discussion of the cognitive mechanism of Chinese "adj.+ v." construction.

"同伴反馈",作为应用语言学的研究焦点之一,其研究的深度及广度都有了相当的发展。本文首先回顾了"同伴反馈"的定义、理论基础及相关研究成果,之后介绍了笔者针对本科英语专业课堂"同伴口头反馈"所进行的实验研究,客观报道学生对"同伴反馈"的看法,并总结教学启示。