庭院:永恒的别墅潮流

建筑,是凝固的音乐;别墅,是流淌的生活. 别墅,一定要庭院,而庭院风格的精到与否,实在是考核标榜某某风格别墅的血统纯正与否的关键. 从一座庭院,眺望古老的星星,从一张阴影的长凳,眺望那些零散的光点--连同秘密水池里流水的循环,素馨花和忍冬的香气、门道的弯拱…… 能够传世的建筑,应当是建筑文化的经典之作,也代表着一个时代的建筑时尚趋势. 从空间获得灵感,在惟美的别墅中萃取一点精华,结合艺术与生活,讲述建筑与时尚.     

‘I hereby come out’: What sort of speech act is coming out?

The process of coming out linguistically as a lesbian or as a gay man is occasionally referred to as a speech act (e.g. Harvey 1997: 72; Liang 1997: 293). This analogy is taken as a starting point to explore the extent to which coming out is a performative act, and what sort of speech act coming out may be. The discussion draws on the perspective of both the speaker and the hearer to consider how the acts involved in coming out are open to interpretation. Parallels are drawn between the act of coming out as a lesbian or a gay man and other instances of self–disclosure or of individuals' constructions of new facets of their identities.     

Locality and community: coming to terms with place

The paper seeks to examine how social science has attempted to combine the uniqueness of place with general social processes. Two concepts which have traditionally been used to this end are examined; these are ‘locality’ and ‘community’. It is argued that although community has fallen out of favour, problems associated with the use of ‘locality’ could lead to a revival in the use of the former concept. Case study material from rural Wales is presented to show how the two approaches might usefully be combined.