Deliberations on the development of an intercultural competence curriculum

Committed to developing an institution-wide intercultural competence curriculum for master’s-level students preparing for international careers, a team of nine professors from across disciplines deliberated for a year on their fundamental understandings of intercultural competence and what it would mean to facilitate the development of that competence in students. This article recounts the team’s philosophical debates related to intercultural competence: definitions, effective methods of teaching, intersectionality of identities, Western bias in the literature, power and inequity, and the role of language learning. The deliberations became the foundation for an institution-wide curriculum, focused on helping graduates to be not only effective workers and managers in multicultural settings, but also to be leaders in social change. This article shares the conversations and considerations of the planning process and the breadth and emphasis of the curriculum that emerged. Reflections on students’ learning and recommendations for curriculum developers are offered.     

角色参照语法的分析框架及其解释能力探析

角色参照语法是20世纪70年代以来发展起来的一种结构功能语法。论文尝试评述其主要的语法分析框架,并以英语和汉语为例探究其对不同语言的解释能力。角色参照语法成功地将语篇、语用因素融入到句法结构的分析之中,因此,它不仅能够较好地解释英语等形合语言的结构特征,也适用于具有意合特征的汉语等语言的结构分析。角色参照语法比传统的形式语法具有更大的灵活性和适用性。     

语言能力结构与教学大纲设计

英语学习者语言能力结构由四个层面组成,即语言知识、语言技能、交际能力和综合素质,各层面之间存在密切的关系。学习者语言能力结构建立可以通过教学大纲的选择和设计来实现。语法、技能、主题、情景、功能意念以及任务型教学大纲可供教师在不同的培训阶段选择使用。     

发电企业核心竞争力评价体系研究

本文综合国内外核心竞争力文献成果,结合中国发电企业实际情况,提出了核心竞争力评价指标的设置原则,选定八类共40项评价指标,建立了完整的发电企业核心竞争力评价指标体系,并采用全息雷达图法对核心竞争力进行了评价。     

大学英语教学与学生社会文化意识的培养

海姆斯的交际能力理论认为社会文化意识和修养是交际能力的重要组成部分,大学生社会文化意识的培养与其跨文化交际能力的形成有着紧密的联系。培养大学生的跨文化交际能力是大学英语教学的目标之一,大学英语教学应针对目前大学生社会文化意识相对薄弱的特点,采取相应的教学措施,培养和增强大学生的社会文化意识,促进其跨文化交际能力的形成和提高。     

论英汉互译文本中翻译变易的三个层面

变易是翻译中普遍存在的一种现象,由于两种语言系统的差异,译者不得不作语言层面上的变易。语言上的变易有可能对译本的其他三个层面,即语义、风格及语用含义造成影响,这四个层面的变易现象常常会同时体现在一个词或句子上。通过英汉译本中的实例,分析后三个层面上的翻译变易,即语义变易、风格变易和语用变易,指出译者的翻译策略及相应的变易受文化的宏观影响。     

两周金文的第二人称代词及一些相关问题

两周金文共有的第二人称代词有"女"、"乃"、"尔",它们的语法功能一直比较稳定。"余、朕、女、乃"和"我、尔"在殷商以前可能属于不同方言,后者之进入前者所在方言,可能就是为了补前者不表复数之不足。第二人称代词在殷商西周时可通用于各种身份的人之间,到东周春秋时期逐渐有了限制。从殷商西周到春秋战国,随着称谓礼仪的发展,称谓系统也发展得愈益丰富完善。     

Note passing as gendered practices of public ambiguity in a hyper‐masculine organization

This article explores a surprising and seemingly mundane organizational practice: passing notes during professional meetings. Based on 34 in‐depth interviews with women in a hyper‐masculine organization — the Israeli military — this study focuses on what I term gendered practices of public ambiguity. It demonstrates how these practices shed light on three interrelated paths to power at work: (i) practices of public intimacy between men; (ii) practices of women's degradation by men; and (iii) practices of recognition claims by women. The tension between the publicity inherent in the routine passing of notes and the ambiguity of their contents calls for a more nuanced theorization of gendered power practices, which transcends the accepted dichotomy of doing and undoing gender, reproducing or challenging the symbolic gender order. The findings show that gendered micro‐practices can become polysemic symbolic spaces in which women redirect the flow of power, if only temporarily and locally, and turn it into a multidirectional and multi‐agentic resource. The conceptual contribution of these findings is discussed in terms of the positioning of women in hyper‐masculine environments as pragmatic subjects who (re‐)construct mechanisms of power out of the restricted repertoire available to them.     

Deliberate acquisition of competence in physiological breech birth: A grounded theory study

Problem

Research suggests that the skill and experience of the attendant significantly affect the outcomes of vaginal breech births, yet practitioner experience levels are minimal within many contemporary maternity care systems.

请求策略理论研究简

“请求”属于一种常见的言语行为,而“请求策略”是语用学相对集中的研究领域,但是理论上的阐释往往不足。因此,本研究选择请求策略的相关理论为研究对象,在介绍请求定义及组成的基础上,论述了交际能力与语用能力、语言语用能力与社交语用能力、言语行为理论、面子理论、礼貌理论等内容,并且进一步探讨了相关理论在请求策略研究上的应用。