This paper investigates the use of corpora in studying World Englishes (WEs), focusing on their role in analysing language variation, morpho-syntactic patterns, and sociolinguistic changes. It also addresses key challenges, such as the lack of representativeness, limited spoken data, and difficulties in managing Creole and standard English varieties. The study highlights the need for more comprehensive corpora to better understand the complexities of WEs.

The “2022 Yan'an Government Work Report” issued by Yan'an City serves as a crucial source of information for both domestic and international audiences aiming to gain insight into the specific circumstances of the city. This paper adopts a communicative translation theory approach to analyze the translation strategies employed in the 2022 Government Work Report.

With the rapid development of technology, especially the widespread application of big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things, the rail transit industry is undergoing unprecedented transformation. It is gradually shifting from a traditional management model heavily reliant on manual operations towards a direction of intelligence and automation. This article delves into the intelligent operation system of rail transit from two aspects: train operation situation and passenger flow, analysing its significant role in enhancing operational efficiency, optimizing resource allocation, and improving service quality.

With the development and growth of the sharing economy, various new forms of employment emerge at the historic moment, and the social security rights and interests of flexible employees in new forms of employment are significantly less than those of traditional practitioners, and the problems in occupational injury protection are especially prominent, which is in urgent need of the state to issue policies to improve. Since 2019, the central and local governments have successively carried out pilot work on occupational injury protection for workers with new employment forms. Based on the PMC policy evaluation index model, this study conducted a systematic quantitative evaluation and analysis of the occupational injury protection policies of the new types of flexible employment in several pilot provinces and cities, quantitatively evaluated the scientific integrity of each dimension of the current policies, and put forward targeted optimization countermeasures for the occupational injury protection policies of the new types of flexible employment. Effectively safeguard the occupational injury protection rights and interests of new types of flexible employment.

This paper analyzes the conversational implicature of verbal humor based on Grice’s cooperative principle (CP) to explore its generative mechanism in Chinese debate, taking a debate talk show in China, Let’s Talk for example with qualitative analysis method. There are mainly three findings: firstly, the essence of debating language is violating the maxim of quantity. Secondly, sometimes it is necessary for debaters to confound some concepts to confuse opponents and create humor. Thirdly, the violations of CP frequently emerging in debating can be employed as a strong strategy to create humor, engage and persuade audience. This paper hopes to provide rhetorical and pragmatic strategies for debaters in Chinese debating.