English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies
English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies (ELTLS) is an international, Refereed, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Scholink. The journal aims to provide a high-level platform for scholars and researchers all over the world to share latest findings and views in the field of English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies. We would welcome scholars and researchers engaging in the related field to submit your manuscripts which are complete unpublished and original works and not under review in any other journals to English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies. Both of online submission and E-mail submission (eltls@scholink.org) are acceptable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The journal includes, but is not limited to the following fields: Teaching English as a Second Language or a Foreign Language Syllabus Design and Curriculum Development English Language Testing and Assessment Linguistics Teaching and Learning Discourse Analysis Second Language Acquisition Critical Discourse Analysis Applied Linguistics Comparative Linguistics Corpus Linguistics Descriptive Linguistics Language and Linguistics Psycholinguistics Socio-linguistics Theoretical Linguistics Teaching Process Translation Studies Language Learning Education Morphology Phonology Pragmatics Literature Semantics Syntax -------------------------------------------------------- Index/List/Archive CNKI-Scholar CrossRef WANFANGDATA LinkedIn ResearchGate ResearchBib Yahoo Google Scholar Canadiana ResearchBib Base Search CrossRef Sciencegate Worldcat PKP Open Archives Harvester Lockss ISSN PORTAL Refereed Journal: English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies is a Refereed Journal. Open access: English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies is available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." Peer review: English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies takes peer review policy. Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers).
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A Constructional Analysis and Pragmatic Functions of the Expression “Who is as X as you”
The construction “shéi yǒu nǐ X” (“who is as X as you”) is a relatively common expression in everyday discourse. It consists of the fixed component “shéi yǒu nǐ” (“who has/is like you”) and a variable embedded component “X.” It is generally assumed that the overall meaning of “shéi yǒu nǐ X” is inferred from the non-referential (non-specific) and negative meanings of the interrogative pronoun shéi (“who”), such that the construction is interpreted as “no one is more X than you.” However, based on observations from daily communication, the author finds that in certain specific contexts, “shéi yǒu nǐ X” does not simply convey the meaning “no one is more X than you,” but additionally carries an ironic sense, expressing a particular counter-expectational meaning. This meaning can only be realized at the level of the construction as a whole and cannot be directly inferred from any individual component. This paper analyzes the characteristics of the components of the “shéi yǒu nǐ X” construction, with particular emphasis on the construction when it conveys counter-expectational meaning, and discusses its ironic pragmatic functions in concrete contexts.
Copyright (c) 2026 Ma Xin http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
In the AIGC Era: Interpreting Pedagogy for Translation Majors
The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC), represented by tools such as ChatGPT, has triggered a new wave of artificial intelligence transformation and brought profound changes to the field of education. With regard to translation majors, although most universities have established interpreting programs or courses and assumed the responsibility of cultivating interpreting professionals, the training of interpreting talents in higher education still faces considerable challenges due to limitations in teaching staff, student preparedness, and traditional instructional models. With the continuous advancement of artificial intelligence technologies, including intelligent speech recognition, automatic transcription, and virtual reality, new opportunities and technical support have been provided for interpreting classroom instruction. In this context, interpreting educators are expected to actively integrate emerging technologies into pedagogical design, reconstruct interpreting curricula, transform traditional talent-training models, and enhance the overall effectiveness of interpreting education. This paper explores the challenges posed by AIGC technologies to interpreting teaching and proposes an implementation path for AI-enabled interpreting classroom instruction in higher education.
Copyright (c) 2026 Mengxi Li http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
An Analysis on the English Translation Strategies for the Publicity Texts of Guilin Red Tourism Culture from the Perspective of Eco-translatology
This paper focuses on the international communication needs of Guilin red tourism culture in the context of globalization. Taking the theory of Eco-translatology, it deeply analyzes the practical dilemmas and optimization strategies for the English translation of the publicity texts of Guilin red tourism culture. The English translation of its publicity materials is hindered by problems in the dimensions of language, culture, and communication. On the one hand, red culture is highly local and historical, and traditional translation methods find it difficult to balance the requirements of language, culture, and communication. On the other hand, Guilin’s red tourism texts have difficulties in vocabulary, sentence patterns, and grammar. There is insufficient interpretation of cultural connotations, weak presentation of regional characteristics, vague audience positioning, and a lack of interactivity. Eco-translatology likens translation to an ecosystem, with the core of dynamic adaptive selection and transformation, which brings ideas for solving these problems. Emphasizing dynamic adaptive selection and transformation in translation, this paper accordingly puts forward optimization suggestions for English translation from the linguistic dimension, cultural dimension, and communicative dimension, striving to improve the quality of the English translation of Guilin red tourism culture publicity texts and facilitating its cross-cultural dissemination and inheritance.
Copyright (c) 2026 Juan Du http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Research on the Application of Situational Teaching Method in Basic Performance Teaching in Colleges and Universities
Basic performance teaching is the core cornerstone of the performance major in colleges and universities, directly determining the foundation of students’ performance literacy and their potential for subsequent professional development. Currently, basic performance teaching in Chinese colleges and universities still faces problems such as rigid traditional lecture-based teaching, passive imitation by students, empty emotional expression, and difficulty in role immersion. The situational teaching method, centered on “creating real situations, guiding active experience, and stimulating emotional resonance”, aligns with the core goals of basic performance teaching—“liberating nature, perceiving roles, and conveying emotions”—and can effectively address the drawbacks of traditional teaching. By adopting questionnaire surveys and case studies, combined with the reality of basic performance teaching in colleges and universities, this paper explores the application value, existing problems, and optimization paths of the situational teaching method. The application effect is verified through teaching cases, providing operable practical references for the reform of basic performance teaching in colleges and universities, helping to improve teaching quality and cultivate performance professionals with solid foundations, strong emotional expression abilities, and innovative capabilities.
Copyright (c) 2026 Ouyang Chunyu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Reconstruction of Female Discourse in the Translation of Chinese Online Literature: A Case Study of The Legend of Fuyao
With the global spread of Chinese online literature, translation has become a crucial factor influencing its reception. The Legend of Fuyao, as a representative female-centered web novel, demonstrates significant linguistic and cultural transformations in its English translation. Based on Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, this study examines the changes in the heroine Meng Fuyao’s discourse style at the textual, discourse-practice, and social-practice levels. The findings reveal that at the textual level, the aggressiveness and authority of the heroine’s language are generally weakened in translation; at the discourse practice level, the translator’s strategies, the platform’s operational logic, and readers’ reception collectively contribute to a shift toward a more moderate and fluent style; at the social practice level, translation not only redistributes power discourse but also reflects differing cultural expectations regarding female representation.
Copyright (c) 2026 Mingxuan Tian http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Subtitle Translation in the Film Nezha: The Devil Boy Conquers the Sea: Experience and Implications
As an animated film carrying Chinese mythological narratives, Nezha: The Devil Boy Conquers the Sea explores themes of resistance to fate, identity construction, and value reconstruction, and has aroused wide resonance among audiences both at home and abroad. Exploring how subtitle translation can balance semantic accuracy and emotional transmission, ensuring that the film’s value system transcends linguistic and cultural barriers and resonates with audiences from different cultural backgrounds, contributes to improving overseas audiences’ overall perception and acceptance of Chinese animation. Taking Nezha: The Devil Boy Conquers the Sea as the research object, this paper, based on Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA), examines subtitle translation from four dimensions—culture, context, content, and expression. The study aims to provide experience and insights for film subtitle translation, enhance the artistic quality of audiovisual translation, and promote the global dissemination of Chinese animated works.
Copyright (c) 2026 Xinxin Chen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A Study on Subtitle Translation of the Film The Secret Life of Pets from the Perspective of Newmark’s Communicative Translation and Semantic Translation Theories
This paper examines the subtitle translation of the animated film The Secret Life of Pets from the perspective of Peter Newmark’s theories of communicative translation and semantic translation. The study reveals that the subtitle translation of this film embodies a combination of both principles. Most translations employ liberal translation through the conversion of cultural concepts, the use of Chinese idioms or idiomatic expressions, and contextual adaptation, reflecting the reader-centered equivalence principle of communicative translation. Some translations retain the original text structure, surface meaning, or cultural imagery through literal translation, demonstrating the text fidelity and author-centered principle of semantic translation. This research vividly illustrates the coexistence and complementarity of these two translation theories in practice.
Copyright (c) 2026 Yaqi Luo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0