Family Structure and Quality of Life of Elders in Rural China: The Role of the New Rural Social Pension

Using data from a survey in Ankang district of Shaanxi province of China in 2011, this article examines the protective effect of the New Rural Social Pension (NRSP) on quality of life of rural elders, as well the moderating effect on association between family structure and quality of life. An instrumental variable approach is used. NRSP is shown to significantly improve the quality of life of rural elders, and a robustness check shows that this effect is consistent across different sets of subgroups. Compared with the elders who have at least one son, the quality of life of those who are childless or have only one child is significantly lower. The NRSP is more likely to significantly improve the quality of life of one-child elders. In addition, the associations between the NRSP and the different facets of quality of life of the elders are significant except for the facet of sensory abilities.     

Language,multiple authenticities and social media: The online language practices of university students in Mongolia

This paper seeks to contribute to the current discussion of the sociolinguistics of globalization by revealing youth linguistic diversity from the perspective of the online mixed language practices of university students in contemporary post‐socialist Mongolia. Drawing on sets of Facebook data, the paper firstly argues that the online mixed youth language practices should be understood as ‘translingual’ not only due to their varied recombination of linguistic and cultural resources, genres, modes, styles and repertories, but also due to their direct subtextual connections with wider socio‐cultural, historical and ideological meanings. Secondly, online users metalinguistically claim authenticity in terms of their own translingual practices as opposed to other colliding language ideologies such as linguistic dystopia. How they relocalize the notion of authenticity, however, differs profoundly depending on their own often‐diverse criteria, identities, beliefs and ideas. This shows that, with mixing and recombining at its very core, the translingual practices of modern young speakers provide us with a significant insight into the co‐existence of multiple authenticities and origins of authenticity in an increasingly interconnected world.     

Examining concepts of power and agency in research with young people

Concepts of power and agency have become increasingly prominent in the youth studies literatures and related research. A focus of the research to date has been an examination of how a better understanding of young people's lived experiences can reveal possibilities for young people's agency to emerge. Despite increased interest in the term agency, much less has been said about how the concept is defined and recognized in research with young people, including what the concept may entail but crucially, how the term is linked to and underpinned by the related concept of power. This paper seeks to contribute to our understanding of power and agency as utilized in research with young people. The discussion that follows identifies the possible ways in which different theoretical positions shape our understanding of how power and agency are investigated and how these understandings inform the ways we interpret young people's perspectives and actions as holding potential for ‘agency’. Drawing on recent empirical examples, we consider how varying interpretations of power and/or agency shape not only the ways in which young people's agentic experiences are theorized (and the related ontological and epistemological assumptions these positions imply) but also the presumed effects of that agency.     

从解构到建构——探析全球化语境下阿库乌雾诗歌创作的技巧

学者型的彝族诗人阿库乌雾,其诗歌内容蕴含着浓郁的宗教色彩和寻根意识。创作方法上,他既有对传统诗歌 技巧的传承又融合了诸多后现代的写作技巧。而互文的使用、碎片化的结构和大小语言的转换是阿库乌雾的诗歌技巧中最独 特的美学表现。     

《原诗》本体缺失与本土文论建设

综合叶燮《原诗》的研究资料发现,关于其本体的论述,形成了“胸襟”本体论、“气”本体论、“理”本体论、唯物主义本源论、主客体系统本体论等,这充分说明叶燮《原诗》的本体是不确定的,从而导致他的诗学体系不完备。由此反思中国文论的失语现状,可以从确立核心范畴、加强理论推阐、创新文论话语三个方面,来进行本土文论建设。     

我国商业银行资本结构对盈利能力的影响研究

银行业在国民经济中占有重要地位,其稳定和发展对一国经济有着重要的推动作用。商业银行的特殊资本结构和盈利能力的相关性一直是学术界争论的热点,一方面,如何在股权资本和债权资本中寻求平衡,找寻最优点对银行盈利能力有着直接影响;另一方面,资本结构也可以通过影响公司治理结构来影响银行的盈利能力。     

从“城市名片”到“城市品牌”--合肥城市品牌形象传播探析

进入21世纪之后,城市化飞速发展的社会现实,对于中国的每一个城市都提出了新的挑战和要求。城市品牌形象以其在城市发展中不可替代的作用成为了在城市发展中的热议论题。2011年合肥进行行政区划调整,2013年“大湖名城,创新高地”这一响亮的城市品牌正式提出,合肥正在巨变中迅速发展。从城市品牌概念入手,梳理合肥城市形象的发展历史,分析其历史意义和必然性,重点结合合肥对最新提出的品牌采取的多种措施,分析新的时代环境下,合肥城市品牌的传播过程和意义,并对未来做出展望。     

现代技术道德化初探

现代技术给社会带来了诸多道德问题,且现代技术本身也已经成为一个道德问题。技术“价值中立”观点的直接后果就是造成了技术与道德的两分状态,因此有技术“道德中立”的观点。通过考察技术的本质可知,技术并非完全是一种单纯的手段和工具,技术负载了价值,具有自身的意向结构,正是技术的意向结构决定了技术非“道德中立”。技术应该也必须是一个道德主体,技术道德应该包含义务的道德和愿望的道德①。     

科技英语文体中的类比与隐喻

类比和隐喻是认知语言学中常见的两种语义建构机制,其最终目的是降低认知难度,因此经常被运用在以阐释为目的的科技英语文体中。两者常因映射机制的相似性而被混淆。然而,从结构映射及概念隐喻理论可以看出,类比侧重系统结构的映射对接,而隐喻侧重概念特征单向投射。即使显性或隐性地共同呈现出“A is B”的语言结构,在具体语境中也有类比或隐喻的侧重性,而非完全雷同,但在某些语境下又可能存在相互补充的糅合关系。     

莫言小说《四十一炮》的复调特征剖析

莫言小说《四十一炮》是典型的复调结构,小说的主人公不但是故事的叙述者,还是作者思想的寄托者。作者“用写作挽留自己的少年时光”,让罗小通“用诉说创造自己的少年时光”①,以罗小通为中心的大型对话和微型对话编织了小说中复杂的人物关系,将三条线索的故事浓缩在同一时空,小说中多种意义指向同一语词,多种风格混搭成作品统一的和声效果,恰如复调的不同声部构成和谐的整体。