贬责感叹和褒扬感叹的语义结构和语用功能——以“好你个＋NP”为例

在构式语法理论的指导下,文章着重对构式“好你个＋NP”的语义特点和语用功能进行初步探讨。文章首先界定其整体意义,而后分析其构成要素的特征及主观性,并根据语用差异划分为贬责感叹和褒扬感叹,指出处于不同的语法化阶段和等级,其语义重点和语用功能存在差异。     

跨文化语境中的商标翻译

翻译商标的目的是让目标消费者了解和接受产品。商标的翻译不仅是来源语和目的语之间的语言文字转换．更是一种跨文化交际的过程。从跨文化视角探讨商标翻译,并对商标翻译成功的必要条件、原则和技巧进行探讨。     

真实性原则下的英语名祖词分类

为了更好地研究英语名祖词的分类标准,采用文献综述法和例证分析法,以名祖词来源为出发点,在总结国内外名祖词分类标准的基础上,提出对其进行分类研究的新原则——真实性。在此原则指导下对英语名祖词进行分类研究,以期丰富英语名祖词的相关研究,服务于英语词汇教学,进而提高英语学习者的跨文化交际能力。     

国内语用学研究:现状、路径与展望——对2008—2010年8种外语类核心期刊的实证分析

依循语用学研究的5个维度,即整体分布情况、研究主题、研究方法、研究语种和语料来源,对2008—2010年间8种外语类核心期刊进行实证分析,研究显示目前国内语用学研究呈现出学科融合多元化、研究方法实证化、语用研究本土化和语料来源多样化的多维指向的科学发展路径。与此同时,国内语用学的研究中仍存在一些问题亟待修正与完善。     

维持根斯坦后期哲学思想对当代语言学的影响

维持根斯坦（L．Wittgenstein）始终把语言作为哲学研究的唯一对象,坚持通过语言分析解决哲学问题。他后期的语言观直接导致了日常语言学派的产生。日常语言学派从人们的行为对语言的影响的角度研究语言,把语言看作是人闪的一种言语行为,在言语行为中寻求语言的意义。维氏后期的某些哲学思想成为当代一些新兴语言学派的理论基础。     

Marriage and separation risks among German cohabiters: Differences between types of cohabiter

We propose a typology of different meanings of cohabitation that combines cohabiters’ intentions to marry with a general attitude toward marriage, using competing risk analyses to examine whether some cohabiters are more prone than others to marry or to separate. Using data (N = 1,258) from four waves of the German Family Panel (PAIRFAM) and a supplementary study (DEMODIFF), we compared eastern and western German cohabiters of the birth cohorts 1971–73 and 1981–83. Western Germans more frequently view cohabitation as a step in the marriage process, whereas eastern Germans more often cohabit as an alternative to marriage. Taking into account marital attitudes reveals that cohabiters without marriage plans differ from those with plans in their relationship careers, and also shows that cohabiters who plan to marry despite holding a less favourable view of marriage are less likely to realize their plans than cohabiters whose intentions and attitudes are more congruent.     

The inner circle: Building bridges or boundaries between researchers and practitioners

An epistemological and methodological approach, The Change Laboratory, is analysed to determine which forms of distributing knowledge are apparent during cross-cultural research. Distributing knowledge is intricately related to methodological design, to researchers’ and practitioners’ life experiences and to roles of power. The article concludes that research conducted across cultures necessitates careful analysis of the power found within forms of distributing knowledge. This power is derived from a tacit belief that certain knowledge is only available to those within a given circle or that it is available to those outside a given circle without alteration.     

Illuminating the Phenomenological Challenges of Cross-Cultural Supervision

ABSTRACT

The authors discuss transference enactments that occur during cross-cultural supervision. Previous research has shown that few mental health professionals willingly talk about race during supervision and that White supervisees experience significant difficulty when directly engaged in discussions about race. They introduce a new phenomenon, “stereotypical” transference enactments, as a means for understanding the countertransference Black female clinical supervisors experience during clinical supervision of White supervisees. The findings indicated that effective cross-cultural supervision should address the intersectionality of race and gender to enhance the development of multicultural clinical skills. The clinical and educational challenges are discussed by using two case vignettes.     

Totally tall sounds totally younger: Intensification at the socio‐semantics interface

In two social perception experiments, we explore the relationship between the social meaning and the semantic/pragmatic properties of the intensifier totally in American English. In Experiment 1, we show that totally is perceived as a more salient index of social identity categories – measured in terms of Age, Solidarity and Status attributes – when it targets a scalar dimension grounded in the speaker's attitude, as opposed to when it occurs in contexts where the scale is provided by the subsequent predicate. In Experiment 2, we show that the social indexicality of totally is even more salient in contexts in which the intensifier, by virtue of its pragmatic contribution, invites a stance of heightened proximity and convergence between the interlocutors. These results point to a principled connection between the semantic, pragmatic and personality‐based social meanings of totally, providing new insights into the dynamics whereby different layers of meaning conspire to determine what an expression ‘says’ when deployed in interaction.     

Personal reflection and experience of a Fulbright Scholar: teaching a mental health course in Vietnam’s changing culture

This paper documents the experience of developing and teaching a course on mental health for undergraduate social worker students during a semester in Vietnam. Social work is a profession at the early stages of development in Vietnam, requiring much curriculum development. There are over 40 universities with undergraduate social work education programs, but few of the faculty have had training or experience in practicing social work. The paper will summarize the main reasons for developing such a course given the current state of mental health need and services in a changing culture, as well as the current state of professional social work education and the newly established profession of social work. The author describes the contexts underlying the course—the status of social work and social work education in Vietnam, the context of mental health and mental illness in Vietnam, and curriculum adaptation to the cultural context. From this experience, the lessons learned about the role of cross-cultural critical thinking, cultural knowledge, and other strategies will be discussed about teaching a subject like mental health internationally.