Sex Related Factors in the Perception of Threatening Facial Expressions

This study replicated and extended previously reported sex differences involving both viewer and target in the recognition of threatening facial expressions. Based on the assumption that the evolved cognitive mechanisms mediating anger recognition would have been designed by natural selection to operate quickly in the interests of survival, brief tachistoscopic presentation of stimulus photographs was used. Additionally, in contrast to prior published studies, the statistical methods of signal detection research were used to control for the confounding effects of non-random guessing. The main hypothesis, that anger posed by males would be more accurately perceived than anger posed by females, was supported. A secondary hypothesis, that female-posed anger would be more accurately perceived by women than by men, received partial support. Testosterone levels, measured inferentially in terms of diurnal cycles, failed to show the hypothesized positive relationship to accuracy of anger perception.     

浅析汉语中表因果关系句子的英译法

由于英汉两种语言的差异,汉语中表因果关系的句子翻译成英文有不同的译法,除了采用原因状语从句的结构,还可以采用时间状语从句、地点状语从句、定语从句、不定式短语、介词短语、独立主格结构等多种不同的表达方式。     

《大藏经》词语札记

本文解释了五个汉译佛经《大藏经》中的词语:消息、宁可、巨细、障石疑、缭戾,并一一加以溯源。     

英语委婉语的构造手段

委婉语不仅指委婉词语,它更是积极运用语言进行表达的一种交际方式。作者主要从语言学的角度,探究英语委婉语的构造手段:语音手段、语用手段、语义手段、语法手段、修辞手段。     

“Facing” leaders: Facial expression and leadership perception

This experimental study investigated the effect of a leader's expression of happy versus nervous emotions on subsequent perceptions of leadership and ratings of traits associated with implicit leadership theories (ILTs). Being fast and universally understood, emotions are ideal stimuli for investigating the dynamic effects of ILTs, which were understood in this study in terms of the constraints that expressed emotions impose on the connectionist networks that activate ILTs. The experimental design contrasted videotaped and still frame presentations of a leadership event; however, this methodological factor had no significant effects and analyses were thus collapsed across this factor. Key findings were that the expression of a happy versus nervous emotion at the end of a problem-solving sequence had multiple effects: happy emotions resulted in higher leadership ratings, higher trait ratings, greater correlations among trait ratings, and greater dependence of trait ratings on leadership perceptions. An exploratory model suggested that leadership impressions mediated the effects of facial emotions on trait ratings. The discussion further links the study findings with interpretations in terms of ILTs and many types of constraints on these cognitive structures. It also suggests ways to integrate these ideas with advances in neuroscience research.     

It's written all over their faces: Preschoolers' emotion understanding

Emotion understanding is a multifaceted construct made up of several components. To identify how several common components of emotion understanding relate to one another, five emotion understanding tasks were compared within the same group of children. Fifty‐four preschool children (M = 3.81 years, SD = 0.40) were asked to display the typical facial expression of six emotions after hearing their corresponding emotion label. They were then read six vignettes and asked to: “use your face to show how [the protagonist] would feel,” provide an emotion label for the main character, and “choose a picture of a face that would look like [the main character].” Finally, they were asked to provide a label for emotions presented to them in photographs. For all tasks, six emotions were examined: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. With the exception of the two modeling tasks, results show correlations among the emotion understanding tasks. There was a significant interaction between task and emotion category for emotion understanding accuracy. However, there was some consistency in the pattern of discrete emotion categorization emergence across the tasks. Additionally, accuracy scores (representing emotion understanding) across tasks were not equivalent. Findings are discussed in the broader context of emotion understanding.     

胡塞尔“本质机遇性的表述”探析

在胡塞尔的《逻辑研究》中,表述处于对指示的区别与对直观充实的准备这个中介地位上,而其中本质机遇性的表述更有着特殊的性质。为了解释这些特殊性,就需要规定其内在的含义结构与功能关系。而在德里达看来,这反映了胡塞尔的在场形而上学立场。     

超越性别的女性生命体验——析老舍《月牙儿》的女性意识

从女性主义文学批评的角度来研读就会发现,《月牙儿》小说文本充满了女性意识。具体表现在文本的情绪化结构、女性话语表达、男性缺席结构、女性的自省以及性欲等方面。作家老舍从小生活在社会的底层,以其对贫困的独特理解,他所呈现的女性形象既在显示下层妓女生活悲惨境遇的同时,又表现了强烈的女性独立意识。主人公的独立精神被现实的黑暗所吞没使小说的悲剧性达到了高潮。     

日语敬语新规文件的趣旨

现代日语敬语是表达敬意的一种语言手段，表现新型上下关系中相互尊重的民主理想。这种新的理念是在绝对敬语向相对敬语转变完成后提出来的，调和了敬意表达和关系认知两种观点的矛盾。日本政府以官方文件形式肯定敬语的五分类，适应了国内外敬语教学新形势的要求。我国的日语敬语教学应积极反映这些变化，在教材和教学法上采取新的对策。     

模因论下基因型网络文化用语的翻译

人类语言模因的传递是以基因般的模式进行的。从翻译的角度看,翻译要实现的是一种语言模因跨语言环境的复制和传播,这一过程是由译者对源语语言模因的解码、编码和新的语言模因在目的语中的传播两部分构成的。文章以基因型网络文化用语模因为例,探讨了基因型语言模因的翻译和被接受的过程。