Violence,murder, and fallen women: prostitution in the works of Vsevolod Garshin

This article investigates the theme of prostitution in two stories by the Russian writer Vsevolod Garshin (1855–88). Like many authors of the nineteenth century, Garshin utilizes the symbolic figure of the prostitute to question social and medical beliefs about commercial sex. Focusing on Garshin’s “Proisshestvie” (“An Occurrence”, 1878) and “Nadezhda Nikolaevna” (1885), the article traces the use of melodrama and violence in the depiction of prostitution. Particular attention is paid to Garshin’s use of St. Petersburg to add heightened meaning to the fallen woman’s plight. Connected through the Petersburg myth and the character of Nadezhda Nikolaevna, the stories complicate the traditional redemption plot associated with prostitutes by focusing on the inner life of the fallen woman and her impact on the male characters that she encounters.     

Collecting text messages from college students: Evaluating a novel methodology

Social interaction, particularly in older adolescents, increasingly involves computer‐mediated communication. Although studies of public computer‐mediated communication are increasingly common, studies of private text messaging remain rare. As approaches for obtaining such data evolve with technological advances, developmental scientists need designs in which to use such approaches that reduce sampling biases in both participants and text messages. In this study (n = 854; 46% male; 22% African American, 60% European American), we examined selection biases in the participant sample (i.e., factors associated with actual participation), procedural biases in the participant sample (i.e., factors related to failed data capture due to technological or procedural issues), and selection biases in the sample of text messages (i.e., based on self‐reported reasons for texting). Findings from our study suggest that studying human interaction directly through analysis of text message data is not only feasible, but also may be successfully undertaken with minimal biases regarding sample selection and text message selection among those who are engaged in research and engaged in text messaging outside of the study context. However, biases may occur depending on the type of platform (iPhone vs. Android) used by participants for texting.     

重尾索赔条件下现代风险模型的破产概率估计:多险种混合情形

破产概率是非寿险保险风险理论的核心问题。与经典的Cramér-Lundberg模型相比, 由Li Zehui等建立的现代风险模型更为准确地描述了非寿险保险运营的主要特征, 对现实保险业务具有较好的解释力。本文基于现代风险模型, 考虑保险公司多个险种混合经营这一更为现实的情形, 在索赔额服从正则尾分布条件下获得了破产概率的渐近等价估计。我们发现, 在具有大额索赔特征的多个险种混合的条件下, 公司面临的极端索赔风险将由索赔额分布尾部最厚的那些险种决定, 而索赔额分布尾部相对较薄的那些险种的影响作用将被淹没。该结论的有效性可用MATLAB数值模拟得到理想的验证。本文结果是对风险模型研究的重要推广, 也为多险种混合情形下保险公司的风险控制与初始保证金界定提供了依据。     

Bargaining and Reputation

The paper develops a reputation based theory of bargaining. The idea is to investigate and highlight the influence of bargaining ‘postures’ on bargaining outcomes. A complete information bargaining model a la Rubinstein is amended to accommodate ‘irrational types’ who are obstinate, and indeed for tractability assumed to be completely inflexible in their offers and demands. A strong ‘independence of procedures’ result is derived: after initial postures have been adopted, the bargaining outcome is independent of the fine details of the bargaining protocol so long as both players have the opportunity to make offers frequently. The latter analysis yields a unique continuous‐time limit with a war of attrition structure. In the continuous‐time game, equilibrium is unique, and entails delay, consequently inefficiency. The equilibrium outcome reflects the combined influence of the rates of time preference of the players and the ex ante probabilities of different irrational types. As the probability of irrationality goes to zero, delay and inefficiency disappear; furthermore, if there is a rich set of types for both agents, the limit equilibrium payoffs are inversely proportional to their rates of time preference.     

TEI@I方法论及其在外汇汇率预测中的应用

基于TE I@I方法论的理论框架,构建了一个基于TE I@I方法论的外汇汇率预测模型。在此模型中,传统的经济计量模型用于处理外汇汇率的主要趋势,人工神经网络技术用于分析外汇汇率的非线性,而文本挖掘和专家系统用于处理外汇市场中的突现性和不稳定性。最后,基于集成的思想,利用支持向量回归技术对上述3个部分进行非线性集成,从而获得一个更为精确的预测结果。通过实证方法验证了基于TE I@I方法论的外汇汇率预测模型的有效性。     

喧闹的文本——媒介文化文本视阈中的“李刚门”事件

在层出不穷的众多媒介事件中,"李刚门"事件影响力之大,影响范围之广,影响深度之深引起国内外广泛的关注,并在多话题范围内展开激烈的讨论。如果将作为年度媒介事件的"李刚门"事件放置于媒介文化文本语境中予以阐释,不仅可见其纷繁复杂的各种媒介文本的高密度聚合,而且其中所形成的话语角力场、话语微权力的匿名表达等更应引起人们的高度重视。     

试论关中方言与普通话语的集结运用对文本意义生成的影响——解读《白鹿原》文本语言

陈忠实的小说《白鹿原》运用大量关中方言为整个小说文本意义的生成过程提供了强有力的话语支撑。在地方方言与普通话语的书写方式及运用手法上,《白鹿原》在小说文本的语言构建方面为当代小说的创作提供了内容与形式上的双重典范,同时也使小说文本意义生成的外延尺度得到了进一步的扩展,在意义生成的深层架构上凸显了民族性与现代性的融合。小说文本中关中方言与正式普通话语的有机结合运用使小说文本意义在整个生成过程中具有了独特性、互补性与充盈性。     

表演和现实——简析2011年“春晚”与第九届全国少数民族传统体育运动会开、闭幕式

文章以“2011年春节联欢晚会”与“第九届全国少数民族传统体育运动会开、闭幕式”为个案,结合文学人类学对“表述问题”的讨论,在具体阐释的基础上,试图探讨国家作为“春晚”与“全国少数民族传统体育运动会”的主导演是如何在现实基础上构建表演,并通过媒介的宣传与鼓动来强化国人对表演之现实的认同的.     

“平行文本”比较模式与“文本分析”模式之对比分析

随着国际经济文化交流的日益频繁,应用文体翻译及其理论研究在翻译界占据着越来越重要的地位。平行文本(parallel text)比较模式和由德国功能派翻译学者Christiane Nord提出的文本分析(text analysis)模式在应用翻译中都具有较强的可行性和实用性。本文以一则应用文本的英译为例,试图比较两种模式的异同,以期译者能认识到二者的优点和局限性,将两种方法综合运用到翻译实践中。     

冯至《十四行集》的版本批评

冯至的《十四行集》先后有四个不同的完整版本和两个不完整的刊本。这些版本在标题、注释、附录以及正文本等方面都有着不小的差别。序言、标题、注释等副文本因素的改变体现了不同版本的不同文本本性。特别是正文本的修改很大程度地影响着作品的语义系统以及读者的阐释循环。追究诗人的修改动因以及修改前后的艺术得失无疑具有较高的学术价值。