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Salih, Abdelrahman Abdalla – English Language Teaching, 2021
In recent years, the rapid growth and unprecedented dominance of the English language has transformed the world's linguistic ecology and promoted anxiety and debates about its future. The language has developed into a leading international lingua franca used by millions of speakers in different linguistic and cultural contexts worldwide. This…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Wu, Yanting – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper presents an analysis and comparison of the projection of Chinese "shen" and English "deep" from the spatial domain to other domains of time, sense, emotion, behavior, and society from a cognitive perspective by using the comparative and contrastive method, explaining the universality and differences of SHEN and DEEP…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Second Language Learning
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Wu, Jianqing – English Language Teaching, 2008
This paper is about cultural gaps and their translation. It compares the different cultural connotations of expressions in English and Chinese. First, it analyzes the following cases which are often found in translation: cultural background; non-equivalence; extension and intension; derivation. Then six methods are put forward to solve those above…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, English (Second Language), Translation