Contradictory Logics in Asset‐building Discourse: Habits,Identities and Discipline

Asset‐building as an anti‐poverty policy emphasizes helping the poor to save and accumulate wealth so as to promote future financial well‐being. This article focuses on how asset‐building discourse is practiced at the frontlines and its implications for how workers come to address issues of poverty. Drawing on qualitative data from a case study of a matched savings programme in the USA, the study finds that asset‐building discourse as enacted by workers is fundamentally contradictory: it promotes the idea that the poor can acquire financial literacy, but simultaneously works to discipline the poor to thoughtlessly save out of habit. More priority is placed on inculcating the habit of saving rather than teaching economically rational decision‐making. These findings indicate that asset‐building is consistent with a neo‐liberal outlook that focuses on disciplining the poor to be market compliant irrespective of whether their participation in market‐based activities effectively addresses the challenges of living in poverty.     

宪法权利保障与执政党的行宪能力刍议

中国特色的宪法权利体系的初步形成为宪法权利的实现奠定了制度基础和价值观基础,然而现实中的公民宪法权利保障并不尽如人意.笔者从宪法权利实现中执政党的角色分析入手,阐发了执政党行宪能力的基本内涵,并对提升执政党的行宪能力进行了初步探索.     

《大乘起信论》铃木大拙译本研究

1900年,铃木大拙以唐代实叉难陀的新译本《大乘起信论》为蓝本,将其从汉语转译成英文。译本将中国佛教大乘思想系统译介给西方,引起学界关注。文化层面上,铃木译本契合了当时的比较宗教学理路以及西方对理性主义进行反思的浪潮。文本策略方面,译文在"自我"与"他者"间达到了一种微妙的平衡,助推了译本的成功。铃木本人方面,译本成功的深层原因要归于其文化自觉——体现为宗教冲动和对东西方文化的体认两方面。     

建构主义国际关系理论的学术意涵考察——观念本位、规范进路、政策话语和中国学派

主流建构主义以温特《国际政治的社会理论》作为核心文本。建构主义国际关系理论兴起具有特殊的理论和政策背景。就温和建构主义理论自身而言,它的观念本位使其有效挑战既有国际关系理论话语;它的规范方法是一种社会学进路,也是一种哲学底蕴,是其在方法论层度获得学理支承的基础;温和建构主义适应了政策话语的应用需求,为政策正当性提供了知识和话语支援,虽然可能非其本意。建构主义理论学术意涵与崛起路向对国际关系理论中国学派有多维度借鉴意义。     

英语新闻话语意识形态分析模式研究

意识形态是指一种观念的集合,对一个人或一个社会群体的精神具有一定的支配作用.新闻话语并不是一种自然透明的媒介,而是在语言的外壳下起操纵作用的社会化意识形态的反映.在全球经济一体化的今天,以英语新闻为主导的世界舆论每天都在影响甚至操纵着人们的思想意识.从宏观到微观、再由微观到宏观的英语新闻话语意识形态分析模式体现了社会理论与语言学理论的有机结合,将为分析和解读英语新闻话语中的意识形态提供可操作的分析方法.     

革命"克理斯玛"信仰的隐喻性书写——早期普罗小说"革命-恋爱"模式阐释

早期普罗小说"革命-恋爱"模式通过爱情"得"与"失"的叙述来体认和确证革命的超验性和权威性,为我们塑造了一个无处不在的革命"克理斯玛"信仰,因而充满了"布局的欲望"。恋爱话语具有强烈的意识形态表述功能,这既是"革命的艺术化"叙事理念展示,也是中国现代知识分子渴望再生的普遍文化心理再现,更有隐身其后的现代文人追求"圣道"传统心态的在场。     

Paying the toll: a feminist post‐structural critique of the discourse bridging work and family

On the surface, the modern workplace and home life appear to stand in sharp contrast to one another. The workplace seems to epitomize the modern concern with bounded time and the necessity of effective ‘use time’ (e.g., efficiency, effort, organizational commitment, speed‐up). Home life, on the other hand, is characterized by idealized images of emotionality and relief from the pressures of work. Yet numerous reported experiences of working people seem to belie this supposed duality. For many, home life is experienced as an appendage of the workplace, with its demands on time‐effort balance. Nonetheless, we continue to act as if there are two separate spheres of life that can ultimately be balanced and reconciled. This has been reinforced over the years by a growing discourse of work‐family conflict. Deconstruction of the discourse suggests that far from unraveling the ‘problem’ its characterization as a ‘work‐family’ conflict serves to privilege the dominant themes of use‐time and speed.     

Discourse marker ‘oh’ as a means for realizing the identity potential of constructed dialogue in interaction1

This research explores how discourse marker oh works with constructed dialogue (quoted speech), identifying a use of oh not discussed in previous research in which it can serve to signal speaker stance towards quoted material. While both discourse markers and constructed dialogue have been widely discussed as identity resources in the discourse analytic and interactional‐sociolinguistic tradition, there has been little work considering how these linguistic features may work together. In this paper, I address this gap by illustrating how Bakhtin's (1984) notions of uni‐directional and vari‐directional double voicing articulate with information display and evaluation functions of oh identified by Schiffrin (1987) , suggesting that oh (when occurring as a preface to constructed dialogue), works both to display and evaluate quoted material for the purposes of identity construction in interaction. Such uses of this discourse marker provide illustration of how footing works together with related concepts of evaluation, positioning, and alignment as part of a process of stancetaking in interaction ( Du Bois 2007 ). Examples are taken from ethnographic interviews collected as part of a larger study of the linguistic style of a community of improv performers in Washington, D.C. focusing primarily on examples contributed by one speaker, Josh.     

汉语话语标记研究综述

汉语话语标记是汉语研究的新热点,本文全面梳理了学者们目前已发现的汉语话语标记及研究的相关理论,并将其分为狭义话语标记语与广义话语标记语,即话语标记与语用标记。狭义话语标记与小句没有任何关系,可以省略,不影响表达;广义话语标记与邻近小句存在结构与语义关系,省掉会影响情感、态度等语用意义表达。学术界目前对狭义话语标记语的研究包括静态功能描写与动态演化研究。     

提高党的执政能力关键在于加强制度建设

加强中国共产党执政能力建设,关键在于加强党的制度建设。建立健全党内干部职务任期制度;建立健全具有中国特色的政党法律制度;进一步完善党内民主监督制度。真正做到科学执政,民主执政,依法执政,是中国共产党提高执政能力的关键一环。