毕业论文参考题目（Suggested Topics for College Undergraduates）语言学与跨文化交际1. The Importance of Meaning Group in Translation2. Fuzzy Words and Their Uses in Human Communication3. Ambiguity and Puns in English4. Linguistic Features of ESP (English for Special Purpose)5. Chinese/English Newspapers and Their Linguistic Features6. The Latest Innovation of English/Chinese7. Chinese/English Abstraction8. Language and Internet9. Some Basic Considerations of Style10. English by Newspaper11. Words/Sentences/Texts: Chinese vs English12. Discourse Strategy: Chinese vs English13. Rhytorics: Chinese vs English14. Chinese/English Taboos and Culture15. Cultural difference and Reading Comprehension16. Writing Style and Culture17. Theoretical Models and Intercultural Studies18. Globlalization/Localization of Language and Culture in Global Communication19. Cultural Conflicts and International Politics20. Culture and Interpersonal Relationship21. Proverbs/Idioms/Allusions and Chinese/ English Culture22. Cultural Relativism/ Ethnocentrism/ Stereotype/ Prejudice and InterculturalCommunication23. Clash of Cultural Values: The East and the West语用学I. Pragmatics theoretical practices1. An inquiry into speech act theory2. Inferences of conversational implications3. Context and meaning4. Charles Morris' theory of signs: a pragmatical reflection5. Logical truth and communicative relevance6. The cognitive foundation of Revelance Theory7. Scalar implicature in the utterance interpretation8. Presupposition and contextual projection9. From linguistic categorization to biological categories10. Pragmatical interpretation of lexical unitsII. Pragmatical survey at the societal level1. Interpreting politeness2. Refuse and gender3. A sino-English contrastive study on addressing titles of university students4. An investigation of conversational cooperation(CP) into the local English newsservice5. The analysis of pragmatic failure occurred in the campus English corner6. The cultural preference for the conversational topics in the English corner7. The code-switching of English majors on the campus8. Gender politeness in teachers' compliment behaviours9. Hedges in the Chinese talk showsIII. Pragmatical survey at the discourse level1. Thematic network and text types2. On lexical cohesion in expository writing3. English personal pronouns: a preliminary textual analysis4. The construction and interpretation of cohesion in texts5. The politeness in the business emails6. A pragmatical analysis of mobile phone messages on the campus7. Pragmatic analysis of discourse markers in a certain press conference8. Hedges and genres9. Pragmatic vagueness in book advertisements10. Gricean Implicature and Its application in the reading of campus ads for sale11. Seeking for the maximum relevance from the campus noticeboard翻译1.Theoretical research of translation2.Translation approach research3. Multidisciplinary research4.Business translation research5.Case study6.Translation teaching research例子如下：Eg.1 Research on Skopos theoryEg2. Reflections on the Criteria of TranslationEg3.Translation and GenderEg4. Reflections on Post-colonial TranslationEg5. On Shifts of TranslationEg6. Decision Making in TranslationEg7. Discourse Analysis and TranslationEg8. Is equivalence Possible in Translation?Eg9. Free Translation: an Old Concept with New InterpretationEg10. Reflections on Hermeneutics MotionEg11. Reflections on Ideology and TranslationEg12. On Metaphors of TranslationEg13. On TranslatabilityEg14. On UntranslatabilityEg15. Reflections on Linguistic Approaches of TranslationEg16. On ForeignizationEg17. Adaptation as an approach for Linguistic/ Cultural Translation Eg18. Compensation as an approach for Linguistic/ Cultural Translation Eg19. Pragmatics and TranslationEg20. Psycholinguistic/cognitive approaches of TranslationEg21.On Metaphrase直译Eg22.On Paraphrase 意译Eg23. Literal Approaches of TranslationEg24. Investigations of and Reflections on Machine-aided Translation Eg25. Translation and LogicEg26. Multilingualism and TranslationEg27. Drama TranslationEg28.Poetry TranslationEg29. On Translatorial actionEg30. On the Translation of AdvertisementEg31. On the Translation of Chinese FoodEg32. On the Translation of Film TitlesEg33. On the Translation of DubbingEg34. Reflections on and Investigations of Auto-translationEg35. Studies on Herbert Giles’ Translation英美文学American Literature:1.Gothic elements in American Romantic writers(eg. Poe, Irving)2.On Hawthorn’s intellectual characters(eg. Chillingworth in Scarlet Letter)3.Symbolism in Moby Dick(or Scarlet Letter)4.Captain Ahab and the theme of alienation in Moby Dick5.The theme of quest in Moby Dick(or The Adventures of Huckle Berry Finn)6.Mark Twain and Local Colorism7.Realism in William Dean Howell’s The Rise of Silas Lapham8.On Mark Twain’s characterization of Jim in Huck Finn9.Thematic(or formal differences ) in three major American realist writers10.Stephen Cranes use of color imagery in The Red Badge of Courage11.Social Darwinism and Dreiser’s Sister Carrie12.The role of Nick Carraway in the narratives of The Great Gatsby13.The world of Nick Adams in Hemingway’s In Our Time14.Narrative Strategies in Faulker’s A Rose for Emily15.Joycean epiphany in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesbury, Ohio16.Alienation in O’Nell’s Hairy Ape17.Biblical allusions in The Grapes of Wrath18.Reexamining the social criticism in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible19.Spontaneous prose and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road20.The characterization of Holden in The Catcher in the Rhy21.The role of popular culture in racial stereotyping in Native SonEnglish Literature1.Color, identity, and the tragedy in Shakespeare’s Othello2. A Comparison of Othello in Othello with Shylock in The Merchant of Venice3.On John Donne’s Metaphysical conceits4.Pride and Prejudice and Jane Austen’s view of marriage5.Reading Jane Eyre from the feminist perspective6.Robert Browning and dramatic monologue.7. The nature of love in Wuthering Heights.8. The metaphor of the web in George Eliot’s Middlemarch9.Tess of the d’Urbervilles:a novel of contrasts10.D.H. Lawrence’s exploration of the psychological development of the protagonistin Sons and Lover s.11.The use of Symbols and the themes in Joyce’s Dubliners12.The narrative structure in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness13.Contrast and discuss the allegorical meaning of Jack and Ralph in WilliamGolding’s Lord of Flies14.Golden Notebook and Dorris Lessing’s Narrative StructureDiscuss the endings in John Foweles’s The French Lieutenant’s Women15.。