Staking the claims of identity: Purism,linguistics and the media in post‐1990 Germany1

The paper examines one of the major metalinguistic debates in post‐war Germany: the debate about the influence of English on German, an issue which was raised in the 1990s in the German media and has dominated media discussions on language ever since. The analysis demonstrates that the debate is deeply embedded in current socio‐political discourses as well as in long‐term discursive traditions concerning, on the one hand, the socio‐political changes following German reunification in 1989/90, which involved a revision of the concepts of nation and nationalism, and, on the other, the genesis of the concept of nation, which is closely bound up with the history of the educated bourgeoisie and the process of standardisation as well as linguistic purism. It is argued that the debate on Anglicisms, as is the case in many other metalinguistic debates, cannot be regarded in isolation from the socio‐political environment and the context of historical usage within which it is embedded.     

外语阅读教学和文化语境的“点睛”作用

外语阅读教学中必须加强学生的外语文化知识和外语文化意识培养,必须重视篇章的文化语境对篇章解读的制约作用.本文论述了阅读过程和篇章解读过程,强调语言学习者主动建构篇章的整体意义.笔者认为阅读教学中可以通过显性途径和隐性途径培养学生的异族文化知识和跨文化交际意识.     

语言迁移规律在大学英语教学中的应用研究

迁移规律在英语学习中起着重要的作用。就教师在英语教学活动中,如何依据迁移规律,帮助学生促进正迁移的产生,抑制负迁移的出现,借以提高学习英语成效的方法进行了有关的探讨。如通过创设语境,扩大阅读量,利用语篇教学等教学策略来促进学习的正迁移。     

From cultural knowledge to intercultural communicative competence: changing perspectives on the role of culture in foreign language teaching

Approaches to the concept of culture and teaching cultural competence in a foreign language classroom have been changing over the last decades. The paper summarises, compares, contrasts and evaluates four major approaches to teaching cultural competence in foreign language teaching, that is, knowledge-based approach, contrastive approach, Communicative Language Teaching and intercultural communicative competence approach.     

Which Domestic Firms Benefit from FDI? Evidence from Selected African Countries

The existing literature on the effects of FDI inflows on domestic firms' performance offers ambiguous evidence. Macro‐level studies suggest that the characteristics of inward FDI and the ‘absorptive capacity’ of the host economy matter in determining the sign (or the mere existence) of these effects. Studies based on micro‐level data have so far mostly focused on finding a nexus between FDI inflows and the productivity of domestic firms, suggesting that the effects might be highly heterogeneous. This article, using a recent firm‐level survey conducted by UNIDO in 19 sub‐Saharan African countries, explores the channels through which multinational enterprises may exert an impact on local firms: products’ market, input availability and costs, access to finance and export opportunities, and analyses the strategic reactions of domestic firms induced by the presence of foreign affiliates.     

“中国梦”思想构境中的高校思政课语言生态环境

中国梦思想构境理论是基于张一兵教授所开创的构境理论基础上提出的,高校思想政治课语言生态环境建设是中国梦思想构境中的重要内容,也是和谐校园构建过程中的主要标尺。践行中国梦思想构境理论必须建设高校思政课语言生态环境,必须高度重视高校思想政治理论课教师的言语行为。根除教师的语言暴力,培养教师的语言素质,有利于增强中国梦思想构境理论对大学生的思想教育,净化高校中国梦思政课语言生态环境。     

外语与外国文化的学习--对跨文化外语教学的再认识

本文试图通过比较语言与文化的关系来讨论外语界日益重视的跨文化学习问题.作者认为,充分认识外语学习过程中语言与文化的关系、外语与其相应文化学习的过程和结果是跨文化外语教与学的定位、实施和研究的前提条件.     

论杜诗语言风格的选择与对立统一

语言风格作为文章风格和文学风格的基础 ,对诗歌艺术风格的形成起着至关重要的作用 ,从共性的角度讲 ,杜诗语言风格主要体现出两个方面的特征 :(一 )语言风格的选择与不同的表达内容及交际对象相吻合 ;(二 )多种语言风格在杜诗中形成有机的对立与统一。     

古今北京文学概览

历代为都的北京 ,影响着北方文化和北京文学 ,使文人的政治情愫与文学情愫日益近缘 ,形成了北京文学“有为”的历史品格。历史上源于北京的思想和文学革命都与北京语言导向有关     

古代中国言·象·意结构之初形

直到晚周诸子的时代,百家争鸣,言辩盛行。在这种学风影响下,言用制度和志意内涵均有新异的变化。而与之同步,晚周用象形制也发生新变,出现一种新质的用象形态——观念具象。它有三个基本特性:(一)具象不是独立外在的实物,而以物象的寓意为条件,呈现为一种观念属性;(二)用象是自由灵便的,一方面人为因素增强,可以随意地从物类中抽取观念属性,并在不同物类之间建立观念联属,另一方面用象形制的自足自由程度提高;(三)观念属性的凸显,使用象形制脱落礼仪程式之媒介,而完全依赖语言这种媒质,晚周诸子用象的提示语"如"、"若"、"譬"等词,大多从口从言,显示了观念具象的言象媒介情态。就是在观念具象的融介下,言语与志意达至深度沟通,并形成了中国最早的言·象·意结构模型。