this paper is concerned with the analysis of the spoken language of teenagers, taken from a newly developed specialised corpus the british and taiwanese teenage intercultural communication corpus (batticc). more specifically, the study employs a discourse analytical approach to examine vague language in an intercultural context among a group of british and taiwanese adolescents, paying particul...

Many scholars have argued that British colonial rule promoted post-independence democracy, but there has been considerable debate over the robustness of this result and its causes. We show that this relationship follows a strong temporal pattern. Although former British colonies were considerably more democratic than other countries immediately following independence, subsequent convergence in ...

The study of Lu You’s love theme traditional operas is not only an important part his acceptance history, but also You culture. On the one hand, playwrights reorganize poets’ related “texts” through mode poetic romance; other it rewrites and sings tragic stories by collecting works in opera. By studying process intersection literary thoughts past dynasties, we can get a glimpse multi-dimensiona...