流行语语义变异分析

语言变异是一种普遍存在的社会语言现象。流行语中有相当一部分是通过语义的变异而产生的。流行语语义变异的特点主要表现为:语义映射、语义别解和语义模糊等。     

字母词在当代汉语中使用状况的分析

随着科学技术的迅猛发展以及国际交流的日益加深,加之互联网的促动,当代汉语与外语特别是英语的接触进入了前所未有的深广阶段。当代汉语中出现了大量的字母词。字母词是一个原型概念,根据字母词的概念原型,求证出字母词的4个形式指标,由此我们可以得出字母词的15种基本形式。外文原词不具有字母词的任何形式指标,不是字母词。六百万字样本语料库共出现字母词6068词次;平均每种报纸每天出现144.48词次字母词。新闻语体中字母词的平均使用密度为0.711。科技领域的使用密度最高,其次是教育领域;再次是经济领域,军事领域和政法领域使用密度最低。字母词的使用密度和文章领域相关,和地域及报纸性质不相关。     

浅析美国的多元文化主义与国家认同

美国国家认同由盎格鲁—撒克逊新教徒(WASP)文化和"美国信念"等观点构成,主要反映了WASP文化和欧洲移民的历史认知。20世纪60年代兴起的多元文化主义,对美国国家认同构成了严峻挑战,在20世纪末的美国学术界引发了一场"文化冷战":文化保守主义者认为美国国家认同的核心是WASP文化,指责多元文化主义可能导致美国的分裂,而多元文化主义者更强调美国文化的多样性。受美国保守主义崛起和"9.11"事件的影响,多元文化主义转为低潮,但围绕美国国家认同的争论不会消失。从长远来看,"和而不同"的理念,即对多元文化的尊重和对"美国信念"的共识,也许是对美国国家认同的最好诠释。     

从核心关系词的分布看阿尔泰诸语言的词汇关系

本文通过突厥、蒙古、满通古斯诸语言核心词中关系词分布的分析和统计, 考察了三个语族词汇之间的亲疏远近关系。三个语族语言的词汇之间主要表现为突厥一蒙古 一满通古斯这样依次推移的相关关系。这种推移性关系可能由于三个语族在历史的、区域的 接触与相互影响所引起的。     

ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE EURO: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY BASED ON THE GERMAN SOCIO-ECONOMIC PANEL (SOEP)

This paper investigates changing attitudes towards the euro over time in Germany using longitudinal micro-data from the German Socio Economic Panel Study. We observe that a large part of the German population was worried about the new currency both before and after its introduction. Social psychological theories provide insight into these attitudes. Concerns regarding the euro are apparently connected with problems in handling the new currency and with the press coverage of price rises. For these reasons, future EMU member states should prepare their populations better for these challenges.     

谈言语交际中的模糊词语

现代汉语中,既有精确词语,又有模糊词语。精确 词语和模糊词语是相对而言的。在言语交际中,人们首先要求表达精确,也就是说要使用精 确性的词语。但在日常生活、文学作品和外交辞令中,又常常需要使用一些模糊性的词语, 去表达一些特殊的语义,以收到特殊的修辞效果。因为模糊词语有时比精确词语更适应交际 的需要,更具有特别的修辞效果。     

Custom Epoch Estimation for Surveys

The paper provides a method for generating epoch estimates for time series survey data, allowing for different periods of time (or even point estimates) according to user demand. The method uses a modified kriging estimator, which suppresses the contribution of sampling error variability in order to guarantee that custom epoch estimates have an interpolation property. For the veteran population variable of the American Community Survey, we utilize a simple Brownian Motion model of the population process and derive the modified kriging estimator for this case. The tuning parameters of this population model can be calibrated to the data via simple formulas. We illustrate the application of this method to the generation of point estimates of veteran population, an important objective for Veterans Affairs.     

The business of writing: literature as a commodity in Claudia Piñeiro’s Betibú

This article presents considerations about the status of literature as a commodity and writers as professionals in the twenty-first century. These considerations are based on an analysis of Argentine writer Claudia Piñeiro’s Betibú (2011), which follows the story of an Argentine crime novel writer who becomes a ghostwriter after her latest novel receives harsh reviews for being considered commercial rather than literary. I argue that the novel in question points out misconceptions about the influence of the book industry on the aesthetic quality of literary writing, highlighting the need for literary criticism to look into everyday relations between readers, authors, and editors.     

Colonized Silence: Confronting the Colonial Link in Rural Alaska Native Survivors’ Non-Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse

Though there is evidence linking the history of colonialism and oppression of Indigenous people to the high rates of rape and child sexual abuse experienced by this population today, it is less understood how colonial processes, past and present, condition the decision to disclose or report victimization. Drawing on a survivorship storytelling study of rural Alaska Native survivors of child sexual abuse, this paper underscores the importance of centering colonialism in understanding the culture of silence surrounding sexual victimization among Indigenous people. Results show that reasons for non-disclosure are quite embedded within larger social, historical and political themes of colonialism, oppression, and marginalization. Implications for policy and praxes are discussed, as well as a broader mandate of social change to remove barriers to disclosure.     

Lena Finkle’s magic arc: hybrid influences in the Russian American graphic novel

ABSTRACT

The article examines Anya Ulinich’s graphic narrative Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel and the novel’s use of visual culture from both the author’s Russian and US American backgrounds. The article interrogates the use of history and timelines, Russian art history and Russian art education in Ulinich’s text. It also analyzes other literary constructs that influenced Ulinich’s novel: US American comics/graphic novels and their use of stereotype, and novels by Russian-speaking Jewish American writers, with their thematized Jewishness.