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description: Forum for Linguistic Studies (FLS) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by Whioce Publishing Pte. Ltd. FLS aims at publishing the latest research results in general and applied linguistics as well as philosophy of language. The journal caters to a comprehensive audience, ranging from language researchers, linguists, teachers, educationalists, practitioners and those with a general interest in language and linguistics. FLS aims to encourage the free exchange of information between researchers by being a forum for the constructive discussion and debate of issues in both theoretical and applied research. FLS welcomes submissions in the form of original articles, review articles, book reviews, editorials, commentaries, letters, perspectives, reports, etc. Papers based on the findings of corpus or experiment-oriented researches are particularly welcomed. Examples of relevant topics are: Phonology Syntax Semantics Pragmatics Cognitive-functional linguistic topics Dialogic studies Language teaching/acquisition/policy Philosophy of language Linguistic landscape
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items: Prof. Dr. Zhonggen Yu Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Forum for Linguistic Studies
items: How to make Chinese learning more enjoyable through link word and story telling methods
items: Submission deadline
items: Congratulations,Forum for Linguistic Studies has been accepted for Scopus!
items: The relationship between English and Latin
items: What's the difference between Mandarin and Cantonese?
items: World dialect research
items: Call for Papers
items: The philosophy of language
items: Development of world literature
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items: Structural Linguistics
items: Chinese learning craze
items: Buzzwords of China in 2018
items: Fancy network buzzwords of America in 2018

Prof. Dr. Zhonggen Yu Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Forum for Linguistic Studies
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creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2023-06-01

How to make Chinese learning more enjoyable through link word and story telling methods
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description: Learning Chinese is a marathon rather than a sprint, which means Chinese learners are expected to put an effort into refining their Chinese language skills on a regular basis in order to achieve their final learning goals. Nevertheless, Chinese learning ( https://www.thatsmandarin.com ) can be tedious in that there are numerous grammar points and rules (https://www.nihaocafe.com/chinese-grammar ) that students need to remember at elementary and intermediate levels. In addition, vocabulary learning can also be a challenge for many students as Chinese words are not presented in letters. Here we would like to give a detailed introduction to two innovative language teaching methods that are designed to make Chinese learning more enjoyable. Link Word Method One of the main problems that many Chinese learners are faced with is how to effectively memorize new vocabulary words. The Chinese language is quite different from European languages in terms of several aspects, including word formation. An ordinary Chinese word usually consists of one or two Chinese characters, behind which there is often a certain logic related to the meaning of the word. However, memorizing the meaning of each separate character contained in a Chinese word might not be the best approach in order for beginners to efficiently expand their vocabulary range. To a certain extent, beginners are more susceptible to sounds when it comes to learning new words. Link Word is a method that takes this factor into account. The essence of the Link Word method lies in the similarity between a Chinese word and an associated English word in terms of their pronunciation. The prerequisite for the Link Word method to be effective is that the two chosen words need to be “linked” to each other through a sentence containing the Chinese word itself and an English word with a similar pronunciation. Therefore, this method aims to help Chinese learners improve their ability to memorize new words by laying stress on how they …
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2022-07-26

Submission deadline
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description: FLS stopped receiving submissions for Volume 4 Issue 1. Articles submitted then will be arranged to Volume 5 Issue 1, 2023 upon acceptance. Submission deadline for Volume 5 Issue 1 is March 31, 2023.
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2022-05-11

Congratulations,Forum for Linguistic Studies has been accepted for Scopus!
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description: We are pleased to announce that under the leadership of the Editor-in-Chief and with the support of the entire editorial staff, Forum for Linguistic Studies (FLS) has been accepted by Scopus. The Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) fully affirmed and spoke highly of it, FLS is a title that has been well designed to reach international visibility and attract a good range of scholars.
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2022-02-09

The relationship between English and Latin
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description: English and Latin belong to the same language family (Indo-European language family) (English belongs to Germanic language family, while Latin belongs to Roman language family), so they are different in grammar. Modern English writers tried to apply Latin grammar to English, for example, they imposed a rule prohibiting the use of adverbs between to and verbs, which failed to be successfully applied to everyday language. Even so, more than half of English vocabulary comes from Latin. Many English words have evolved from Roman languages, such as French or Italian. And these Romance languages evolved from Latin, For example: Latin: mercēs → French: merci → English: mercy. Some have evolved directly from Latin, For example: Latin: serēnus → English: serene. Others are directly adopted without change, For example: Latin: lārva → English: larva. Thus, a considerable number of English words have evolved from Latin. In addition, some Latin languages have evolved from Greek, E.g.: Greek: schǒlē → Latin: schǒla → old einglish: scōl → modern English: school. After using so many loanwords in English, it really enriches the original monotonous English vocabulary. Many people are used to calling A-Z "English letters", but in fact, they should be called "Latin letters" or "Roman letters". Because the twenty-six letters A-Z in English are Latin letters from Latin. Language is the sum of words spoken by human beings. Words are produced later and are used to record language symbols. So it is not surprising that English is written in Latin letters, because language and writing are two different things. Source from： http://www.oh100.com/peixun/xiaoyuzhong/278689.html https://www.sohu.com/a/192066148_167657
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2021-09-03

What's the difference between Mandarin and Cantonese?
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description: Many foreigners don't understand whether the official language of China is Mandarin or Cantonese. Let's compare the differences between Mandarin and Cantonese. Number of tones. mandarin consists of four main tones and the fifth "neutral" tone. These tones are composed of high (flat), rising, low (falling), falling and neutral tones. In Pinyin, each tone is represented by an accent on a vowel. For example, we will modify the tone of mandarin vowel "a" as follows: The first sound: ā. Second voice: á Third voice: ǎ The fourth sound: à The fifth tone ("neutral" tone): a The tone of Mandarin seems difficult to understand, but it is even more difficult to understand in Cantonese. That's because Cantonese has six tones. Yes, six! According to the romanization system, there are nine tones in Cantonese. However, it is more common to say that there are nine, because tones 6, 7 and 8 are only shorter versions of tones 9, 1 and 3, and three short ending consonants–p,–t and–k are added. Therefore, Cantonese is often called "9 kinds of sounds and 6 kinds of tones" (nine tones and six tones, Ji ǔ sh ē ng Li Ǫ di à o). written and spoken language. One of the conveniences of mandarin is that there is no difference between written language and spoken language-it is basically written. However, there is a great difference between spoken Cantonese and formal written Cantonese, which will cause headaches for learners! To fully understand this point, we need to quickly browse the history of Chinese written language (written language shūmiànyǔ). Until the 20th century, classical Chinese was used as a formal written language throughout China. It was gradually replaced by Standard Chinese (written form of mandarin based on Beijing dialect). In Hong Kong and other Cantonese-speaking areas, children learn to read and write standard Chinese, but each character is pronounced in Cantonese. However, Cantonese in spoken language usually has a completely different vocabulary set, which causes the di…
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2021-06-21

World dialect research
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description: Dialectics (derived from Greek δ ι λ ε κ ο ο) is a scientific study of dialects. Dialectics is a subclass of sociolinguistics. It mainly studies language changes according to geographical distribution and its related characteristics. Dialectists are finally concerned about the grammar, vocabulary and phonetic features corresponding to local areas. Therefore, they not only study the people who have lived in a certain area for generations, but also study the immigrant groups who have brought their language to new areas. Different countries have many dialect studies in early times. English dialect studies in early times: Traditional dialectology studies mainly focus on making "dialect maps", that is, drawing imaginary lines on geographical maps to mark different dialect areas. However, the elimination of traditional linguistic research methods makes linguists pay more attention to social factors. Therefore, dialectologists began to study the social and regional differences. Atlas of American Languages is one of the earliest dialect studies that takes social factors into account. Before the advent of sociolinguistics, most dialectology works were based on regions. Hanson Kurath published the Handbook of Linguistic Geography in New England in 1939. Similar works for the mid-Atlantic and South-Atlantic States, the north-central region, the upper-middle western region, the Pacific coast and the Gulf countries were also published later. French dialect studies in early times: In 1880, Jules Guilleron published a set of atlases recording 25 French-speaking regions in Switzerland. In 1888, Guilleron put forward the Atlas of French Languages in response to the investigation of French dialects that might be replaced by standard French put forward by gaston Paris. German dialect studies in early times： In Germany, the first comparative study of dialects was The Dialects of Bavaria published by Johann Andreas Schmiele in 1821, which included a language atlas. In 1876, Edward Seave…
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2021-03-15

Call for Papers
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description: CALL FOR PAPERS Forum for Linguistic Studies Scope & Aim： Forum for Linguistic Studies has been aimed at publishing the latest original research results in the form of research articles, review articles and book reviews in general and applied linguistics, specifically in the fields of cognitive-functional linguistic studies, philosophy of language, conversational analysis, language acquisition, and any other topics on language and linguistics. Papers based on the findings of corpus or experiment-oriented researches on natural language phenomena are particularly welcomed. Manuscripts should include such items as Title, List of authors (Corresponding author), Affiliations, Email addresses, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Main body, Conclusion, Acknowledgments and References. All submitted manuscripts should be sent to the email address: ffls_scu@163.com. Editor-in-Chief: Professor Feng Duan (Sichuan University, China) Indexing CNKI Scholar Crossref Google Scholar National Library Board of Singapore Website: http://ojs.whioce.com/index.php/FLS Please note: (1) Manuscript length should be 6 to 15 pages. A research or review article should normally be between 6,000 and 10,000 words when first submitted, while a book review should be between 1500 and 3000 words. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; Times New Roman; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. (2) British or American English spelling may be used provided it is used consistently throughout the paper. (3) The reference style adopted for this issue should be as follows: For journal articles: Petitti DB, Crooks VC, Buckwalter JG, et al. (2005) Blood pressure levels before dementia. Arch Neurol 62(1): 112–116. DOI: 10.1001/archneur.62.1.112. For books: Ohlsen MM, Horne AM, Lowe CF (1988) Group counselling. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, pp. 416. Any other inquiries regarding this issue and the journal should be sen…
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2021-01-18

The philosophy of language
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description: What is the philosophy of language？ Philosophy of language is a branch of philosophy. Generally speaking, it is the study of linguistic phenomena by contemporary western philosophers, and it is a branch or variant of analytical philosophy. The method it uses is logical analysis of language, which is based on the application of modern mathematical logic. Philosophy of language is one of the most influential and outstanding philosophical schools in modern western philosophy. 2. What are the contents of philosophy of language？ Philosophy of language includes three aspects: a. Linguistic philosophy is a discipline that philosophically considers linguistic universals such as meaning, synonyms, syntax and translation, and studies the logical position and verification methods of linguistic theories. It is a special branch of the philosophy of science, which is juxtaposed with the philosophy of physics and psychology. b. Philosophy of language, including the study of any concept based on the structure and function of natural language or artificial language. For example, Aristotle's philosophical thinking on existence, Russell's special description theory and Lyell's works on the concept of mind are all within the scope of this kind of research. c. Philosophy of language is a philosophical treatise on the nature of language and the relationship between language and reality. 3. Main subjects The study of language is divided into three categories: logical positivism, speech act theory and generative linguistics. The core issues of the study include the following nine aspects: the essence of language; Language turn in the development of western philosophy: Theory of meaning and reference; Meaning and confirmation of language; "image theory", "usage theory" and context; Response theory and speech act theory; The expression and understanding of language; Syntactic analysis of natural language; Methods of logical analysis. Xiang Zhou, et al.,delineated in his paper the experimenta…
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2020-11-03

Development of world literature
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description: In the early 19th century, Goethe was keen on studying oriental literature, and published "A Collection of East and West" (1819) and "Hymn of the Four Seasons of China and Germany" (1830). He emphasized the close relationship between eastern and western literature. Goethe was the first scholar to formally put forward the concept of "world literature" in German. On January 31, 1827, in a conversation with his secretary, Aikman, Goethe first praised the legendary Chinese novel "The Legend of a Beautiful Moon", then used the word "Weltliteratur" for the first time, and wrote such a famous text in the history of literary theory: I increasingly believe that poetry is the common property of mankind. Compared with Goethe's talented, sensitive, vague and poetic depiction of world literature, the judgment of "world literature" put forward by the founder of Marxism after 21 years is based on the scientific theories of dialectical materialism, historical materialism and political economy. In the 18th and 19th centuries, European romanticism and critical realism also moved from Europe to the world. Goethe spoke highly of Chinese literature after seeing the legendary Chinese novel "The Legend of a Beautiful Moon", and advised German writers to attach importance to the study and research of foreign literature, jump out of the small circle around them, absorb the good things of foreign literature, and actively communicate with other national literature, so as to jointly promote the early arrival of a new era of world literature. In the process of national literature construction, any nation should not refuse to absorb the excellent literary traditions of foreign nations, but to absorb the things of foreign nations, it must always be combined with the actual literary development of its own nation, with its own cultural traditions and aesthetic habits, and transformed into the things of its own nation. Dialectically, if we interpret and understand "cultural globalization" in a cultu…
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2020-09-12

Book recommendation - A Brief History of European Languages
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description: This paper will recommend several good books, which will help us understand the language development in Europe. Latin language and literature Title: Latino.Grammatica descrittiva Authors: Angelo. Tantucci, Vittorio. Roncoroni Publisher: Poseidonia, 2006.01 A brief history of Italian culture Title: A brief history of Italian culture Editors: Jun Wang, Su’na Wang Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press,2021.02 3. Introduction to Italian Literature History Title: Invito alla letteratura-DalSeicentoall Ottocento(Volume1) Authors: Giorgio Barberi Squarotti,Giordano Genghini,Annalisa Pardini Publisher: Atlas 4. Evolution of Italian Title: La storia della lingua italiana attraverso i test Authors: Claudio Marazzini Publisher: Il mulino, 2006 (italy) 5. Italian-Chinese comparative grammar Title: La nuova grammatica della lingua italiana Authors: Maurizio Dardano, Pertro Trifone Publisher: Zanichelli David Porter did a short review about Early modern European languages and literature. For information, please click: http://ojs.whioce.com/index.php/FLS/article/view/1204
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2020-05-21

Structural Linguistics
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description: Saussure is a famous linguist in Switzerland. Young Grammar School is also called "Personal Psychologism Language School", and its research focuses on the personal factors of language. They understand language as the psychophysiological process of individual speech act and language structure as the direct expression of psychological temperament. Saussure opposed the viewpoint of the Young Grammar School, he focused on social factors, and thought that language was inherited by the collective who used the language according to tradition, and it was a symbolic system that determined individual speech acts, thus forming his later linguistic theory. Saussure thinks that language is a system, that is, a transcendental structure, which is different from what people speak everyday. The characteristics of language are not composed of pronunciation and meaning itself, but a network formed by the relationship between pronunciation and meaning, which becomes a language system, that is, the structure of language. This language system is regarded as a symbol system. Chomsky emphasized that linguistics studies language ability rather than language phenomenon. He divides language into deep structure and surface structure. He explained his structure and transformation method by putting forward the rules of short sentence structure and deduction mode. Phrase structure rules are rules for forming sentences. The first is a set of rules for rewriting phrase structure. For example, a sentence can be defined as consisting of noun phrases and verb phrases, while noun phrases are formed by combining articles with nouns, and verb phrases are formed by combining verbs with nouns. These combined elements are elements of structure, and language is formed by combining these elements. This method of sentence formation is also used to form passive sentences and interrogative sentences. This forms a way to illustrate the generative ability of language in a structuralist way. According to Chomsky's …
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2020-03-16

Call for Papers
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description: CALL FOR PAPERS Forum for Linguistic Studies Scope & Aim： Forum for Linguistic Studies has been aimed at publishing the latest original research results in the form of research articles, review articles and book reviews in general and applied linguistics, specifically in the fields of cognitive-functional linguistic studies, philosophy of language, conversational analysis, language acquisition, and any other topics on language and linguistics. Papers based on the findings of corpus or experiment-oriented researches on natural language phenomena are particularly welcomed. Manuscripts should include such items as Title, List of authors (Corresponding author), Affiliations, Email addresses, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Main body, Conclusion, Acknowledgments and References. All submitted manuscripts should be sent to the email address: ffls_scu@163.com Editor-in-Chief: Professor Feng Duan (Sichuan University, China) Executive Editor-in-Chief: Guocai Zeng (Sichuan University, China) Website: http://ojs.whioce.com/index.php/FLS Please note: (1) Manuscript length should be 6 to 15 pages. A research or review article should normally be between 6,000 and 10,000 words when first submitted, while a book review should be between 1500 and 3000 words. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; Times New Roman; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. (2) British or American English spelling may be used provided it is used consistently throughout the paper. (3) The reference style adopted for this issue should be as follows: For journal articles: Petitti DB, Crooks VC, Buckwalter JG, et al. (2005) Blood pressure levels before dementia. Arch Neurol 62(1): 112–116. DOI: 10.1001/archneur.62.1.112. For books: Ohlsen MM, Horne AM, Lowe CF. (1988) Group counselling. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, pp. 416. Any other inquiries regarding this issue and the journal should be sent by email to f…
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2020-01-15

Chinese learning craze
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description: With the rise of China's economy and science and technology, more and more Chinese people are going to participate in international trade and science & technology exchange activities. Chinese is becoming the world language. On February 22, 2005, British Deputy Minister of Education Kim howells said that English primary and secondary schools are vigorously promoting Chinese teaching, and British people are showing unprecedented enthusiasm for learning Chinese. The British Council trains 30 Chinese teachers every year to make up for the shortage of teachers caused by the upsurge of Chinese learning. It is reported that the number of Russians learning Chinese has tripled in the last decade. About 5,000 Russians studied Chinese in 1997, 17,000 in 2007 and 56,000 in 2017. According to statistics, 39% of Chinese learners study in universities. 31% students study in primary and secondary schools; 25% study in language classes; 5% of people study in Confucius Institutes in China. Anzor Muzayev, deputy director of the Russian Federation's Bureau of Education, Science and Supervision, said recently that hundreds of Russian middle school students will take the Chinese subject examination for the first time in 2019. In the eyes of many Russians, learning Chinese well means having an "stable job", and students who have both professional knowledge background and understand Chinese culture have stronger competitiveness in employment. Xu Ziliang published "A Study on the Differences in the Use of Learning Strategies by Chinese Learners with Different Cognitive Styles", which holds that the differences in cognitive styles directly affect the use of a series of learning strategies, such as attention strategies, information coding, memory strategies, etc., and are also related to the regulation of metacognition, thus contributing to the learning efficiency and learning effect. As one of the most difficult languages in the world, Chinese is spread all over different nationalities and r…
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2019-10-20

Buzzwords of China in 2018
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description: After readers' collection, netizens' voting, experts' selection and media voting, the editorial department of Chewing Words in China selected "Top Ten Popular Words in China in 2018". A community with a shared future. Explanation: The community of destiny, that is, the collective of destiny formed under the same conditions, originated from Community of Shared Future for Mankind. Origin: On March 11, 2018, the first session of the 13th National People's Congress passed the Constitutional Amendment, which changed "developing diplomatic relations and economic and cultural exchanges with other countries" in the Preface to "developing diplomatic relations and economic and cultural exchanges with other countries and promoting the construction of Community of Shared Future for Mankind". The construction of "Community of Shared Future for Mankind" has attracted the attention of all countries, gained global recognition, and became the international consensus to promote the reform of global governance system and build a new type of international relations. Community of Destiny has become a global "hot word". Koi fish，a lucky dog Explanation: koi fish, originally a kind of high-grade ornamental fish, has great ornamental value and is deeply loved by people. Later, "koi fish" began to generally refer to people who are extremely lucky in small probability events. Source: During the National Day of 2018, Alipay official Weibo launched a lucky draw, which was drawn from those who forwarded this lucky draw to Weibo, and the winner was "koi fish, China", attracting more than 3 million reposts. On October 7th, Alipay announced the results of the lucky draw, and the lucky "China koi fish" won the "China koi fish Global Free Gift Package". "koi fish" became popular immediately, and there was a wave of forwarding koi fish images with words such as "koi fish Transshipment", "koi fish Prayer", "koi fish Blessing" and "koi fish Wish" on the Internet. "koi fish" became a symbol of "good luc…
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2019-06-12

Fancy network buzzwords of America in 2018
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description: Words will have different meanings with different contexts. It is difficult to make friends in a second language in other countries, and this difficulty is not only reflected in the apparent obstacles in listening and speaking, but also comes from the cultural background, generation gap and lack of common topics. This article takes stock of the interesting online buzzwords in America in 2018 for your reference. Lit/Turnt Lit originally meant ignition, but it has been used for a long time to describe drunkenness. Now the most popular usage is "exciting and exciting". Interestingly, the words used to express "drunk" in English turned into excitement, while "drunk" in Chinese meant helplessness. Turnt has the same meaning, which can mean drunk or excited and crazy. RT Retwitter is equivalent to "forwarding Weibo", but you don't need to use this word when browsing Twitter and actually forwarding it, but you can use it in any context where you want to express "I agree". Low Key & High Key For example, I'm low-key aggrieved, which means: "The baby is bitter in his heart, but the baby doesn't say it." Another example is "I'm low-key like this", which is the same meaning as silently liking it. For example, "I low-key hate butterfly, don't tell any one." High-key is often used to express consent, likes and dislikes, which means "strong" and "very". Shade A friend throws shade at you, which means "your makeup artist friend casts a shadow on your face?" But the real meaning is innuendo. This sentence actually means "your friends have some disdain and contempt for you", such as rolling their eyes or sneering. FOMO/JOMO The full name of FOMO is afraid of missing out, which means "fear of falling behind" and "fear of missing something important". it is an adjective, and usually happens in such a situation that there is an activity or place that cannot be missed, but you are not there at all. Make a sentence: "ugh hh I'm feeling fomo right now since all my friends have invited one…
creator: Forum for Linguistic Studies
date: 2019-03-08