司马迁对汉代经学的传承与超越

司马迁与汉代经学之间有着复杂关系。汉代经学对司马迁创作《史记》的影响主要表现在天人政治观、经学历史观、经学伦理观等层面。“究天人之际,通古今之变,成一家之言”的《史记》著述动机,集中反映出司马迁对汉代经学的整体性超越。     

重庆方言中几个含否定词的话语标记

重庆方言中几个含否定词“莫”、“不”的话语标记“你莫说”、“你莫看”、“你不晓得”、“不是说”等,在使用环境、产生途径诸方面各有特点,其中词汇化演变在其形成过程中起着重要的作用。因为话语标记具有语义上的非真值条件性,所以这些成分只具有话语、语用方面的作用,其中的否定词已经丧失了原有的否定含义。在与普通话对应成分对比分析之后,它们之间存在的共性得以互相印证,而差异也能够更清晰地展现出来。通过分析和比较这几个话语标记的特点及其与普通话相应成分的异同,可以进一步验证,话语标记在形成过程中的若干阶段不仅都有可能同时存在于语言的共时层面之中,而且不同语言或方言的对应成分未必发生相同的语言演变而成为具有同样功能的话语标记。     

作为公众话语的身体——论新感觉派小说的身体想象

身体是一种动态的、复杂的话语体系,它处在一个永恒的流变当中.同时,两性身体作为一种想象体存在,通过“阅读”能指的身体符号所呈现的活动方式、症状等,便能发现它背后隐含的所指意义以及意义的变迁过程.所以,身体的意义总是在特定的社会、文化、人际关系中建构出来的.新感觉派小说对身体的想象与描写其实是对身体意义的再建构:一方面,这种对身体想象的再建构与五四文本相比体现了由理性追思的个体性向感性享受的公共性的转变轨迹,体现了相对应的身体作为公众话语的特性;另一方面,与上世纪30年代左翼文学的作为革命式公众话语的身体想象相比,新感觉派小说表现出了作为消费式的公众性话语身体想象.     

英语语篇衔接手段与理解

正确理解单词或短语的含义及句子与句子之间的关系是语篇解读的重要前提,而任何英语学习者在语篇解读时都会不可避免地碰到以上的问题。探讨了英语语篇中几个主要的衔接手段在语篇解读时所起的重要作用。     

话语标记语的动态性和主观性研究——兼谈认知参照视点视角下的话语标记语的认知机制

话语标记语是一个复杂的语用现象。本文首先从话语的动态性和话语的主观性两个方面对话语标记语的语用作用进行了分析。话语标记语是话语理解过程中的一种明示导向标记,对构建话语语境、理解说话者的话语意图起着重要作用。然后,以认知参照点为视角,分析了话语标记语存在的理据。认知参照点理论对话语标记语的认知机制有较强的解释力,为分析话语标记语提供了一个新的理论框架。     

英语政治语篇中的“戏剧隐喻”

隐喻与政治密切关联,戏剧隐喻则是政治语篇中最为常见的隐喻模式。借助概念隐喻理论和框架理论,文章对英语政治语篇中的戏剧隐喻进行了系统地描写。在"政治—戏剧"这一隐喻模式中,戏剧作为隐喻的来源域利用自己的框架和槽关系实现对政治这一目标域的框架化。戏剧隐喻的描写方法和框架可以适用于隐喻的跨文化对比之中。     

The construction of social work in Brazil: a study of scientific texts

This article is a review of 50 selected peer-reviewed articles from 2004 to 2013. The texts are analysed with reference to Malcolm Payne’s model of the three-way discourse of social work, and the findings are discussed in relation to Brazil’s social and political background. The review of the articles reveals a general perspective on social work in Brazil as a profession aiming at social change through collective transformation, and a normative identity of social work as a profession with political implications. The texts written in Portuguese for a Brazilian audience are more inclined to promote explicit political perspectives on social work than the English texts. Ideological concepts such as democracy and universal rights expressed in the articles are challenged by competing views in Brazilian society. This is especially the case in discussions about the role of the third sector in Brazil. Social work as a concept cannot be taken for granted. The experience of extreme inequalities that Brazil shares with several other Latin American countries makes it necessary to consider historical and social characteristics in order to understand the analytical perspectives that national and international academics employ when studying social work in Brazil.     

Girls’ “New Femininity” Refusals and “Good Girl” Recuperations in Soap Talk

The “new femininities” produced in postfeminist media confront girls with complex and challenging subjectivities that reach into the spaces where girls engage in their own productions of self. Feminist scholarship has interrogated and critiqued the “girl” produced in postfeminist popular culture texts, highlighting her internal contradictions and often problematic re/production within the heterosexual matrix. Yet, despite an intensified focus on girls featured in popular culture, the ways that girls themselves make sense of the “girl” in contemporary femininity texts has been relatively neglected. Viewing girls' sense-making of femininity in popular culture texts as crucial in the process of their subjectivity or self-production, in this paper we examine pre-teen girls' negotiations of femininity through their talk about Scarlett, a main teen girl character in a New Zealand soap drama. Our analyses and discussion focus on girls' management of the contradictory and regulatory productions of femininity in the text, in particular the often classed conditions under which girls recuperate the “good girl” discourse to refuse the regulatory femininities inside the heterosexual matrix. We suggest that an absence of empowering discourses outside of postfeminism's sexual empowerment limits girls' resources for critiquing and challenging regulatory femininities, “new” and “traditional.”     

Mother Tongues

SUMMARY

As women make their first journeys into motherhood, their relationships and discussions with other women, especially other mothers, can be of vital importance. I argue that as women journey into motherhood, they also journey into what might be called a culture of motherhood-a discursive and symbolic realm shared by all mothers. Through interactions among mothers, information, resources, and advice are shared; hierarchies of authority within the community of mothers are established; and women are given opportunities to discursively explore and construct their maternal identities, for example, through the sharing of birth stories. These symbolic, ritualistic, and communicative dimensions of the journey into motherhood can differ between lesbian-identified and heterosexual-identified women. Lesbian mothers can be suspect or marginalized and, at times, feel the need to be circumspect in their interactions. On the other hand, coupled lesbians make the journey into motherhood, into maternal identity, and into the community of mothers, together as a couple. This is not the same for heterosexual women whose most intimate female companions on the journey tend to be friends, sisters, and mothers. Based on research with 53 Canadian mothers, I compare the journeys into motherhood of lesbian and heterosexual women.