从跨文化教育角度透视我国大学英语教学的问题

作为一个双向跨文化传播和获取知识的过程,英语教学本身既要重视目的语文化,又要重视本国文化。只有对本国语文化有深刻的理解,才能引导学生获得丰富的跨文化知识,养成尊重、宽容、平等、开放的跨文化心态和客观无偏见的跨文化观念与世界意识,从而进一步拓展自己的跨文化心理空间,对文化的多元性展现出一种大度,形成兼容并蓄的跨文化人格。     

关于建立武汉学的构想

武汉学是对武汉的历史文化与现实问题进行专题和综合研究的整合型学科，是城市地方学的一个分支。它以武汉地区丰富的特色文化资源为研究背景，以既有的广泛研究成果为基础。创建武汉学的条件业已成熟，并将产生较高的学术和社会价值。但是，作为一门初创之学，武汉学需要在市政府和广大研究人员的通力合作下建立和完善学科体系，深入探讨武汉学的研究对象和研究方法，设立专门的学术研究机构，开展国内外合作研究，将武汉研究推向深入。     

浅层的喧嚣和深层的呐喊——浅析电影《无穷动》的台词艺术

自有声影片发韧以来,台词日渐成为电影诸元素中的重要一元。精心设计的台词往往具有独特的审美价值,成为影片诸艺术元素中值得单独关注的审美对象。文章借助文化研究的视点,通过对中国都市电影先锋导演宁瀛作品《无穷动》台词的细读,揭示其表面辐射出的丰富审美意味和内里蕴藏着的浓重女性书写色彩。     

文艺学的问题意识与文化转向

在社会转型与范式转换的特定历史时期,文艺学面临的首要问题是关于问题的问题.即我们如何提出问题,提出什么问题是有意义的,它相对于什么对象有意义,在何种历史、何种语境、何种层面上有意义,不同范式观对问题是如何设定与回答的,即对于今天文艺学的现实来讲,什么是真问题,什么是假问题.     

比较文学“危机说”辨

比较文学的"危机说"、"死亡说"应详加辨析。学科的先天不足和内在逻辑悖谬是使比较文学学科意识中道失落的内在原因,而近30年来的理论转向、文化研究热和解构主义大潮是使比较文学学科产生"危机"乃至"死亡"的外在原因。从总体来说,比较文学尽管存在危机,但并没有死亡,反而获得了进一步的发展。中国比较文学应加强学科基本理论建设,争取成为比较文学第三阶段的"代表"。     

当下中国文化研究的“元理论”反思

对于"文化研究的""元理论"的反思,是对于理论思维本身的一种严格的历史化:将思维形式与历史经验之间的内在关系纳入思维视野,在重新审核与祛除幻象的基础上,使得思维在一种更加真实的历史经验基础上重新展开;将作为新的批评理论范型的文化研究与文学研究对立起来,这本身是形而上学思维方式的结果。文化研究的理论情境,正是当下文化语境本身的含混与歧义百出,可以将文化研究看做是将反意义、非意义化的文化场域本身赋予意义的努力。     

现代媒体的新闻语言粒子探析

近年来，随着现代新闻媒体的迅速发展，人们从宏观和微观两个方面对单一新闻媒体进行深入研究，取得了颇为丰硕的成果。在实践中，新闻界通常认为，不同媒体新闻之间存在着十分明显的差异，也正是这些“差异”的存在才满足了广大人民群众丰富多彩的精神文化需求，使新闻媒体呈现“多样化”（报纸、电视、广播、网络等）共同发展、共同繁荣的态势。本文旨在从新闻语言粒子视角，对现代媒体的新闻语言粒子进行微观探析。     

Ad hoc rural regionalism

A new regionalism has been much documented and researched for metropolitan areas; this article documents that there is a new rural regionalism as well. In the United States, these groups appear most likely to emerge in areas that are challenged by outcomes characterizing globalization's effects on the rural condition: namely, exurban or metropolitan sprawl and the resulting landscape fragmentation, often in combination with extreme pressure on the profitability of small farms or other resource uses. This research asks: what impetus is behind rural regional efforts; and what sort of processes of institutionalization do these groups utilize? The paper builds on theory developed by the new regional geographers over the last twenty years, most notably Anne Gilbert and Anssi Paasi, and applies the theoretical framework to three North American case studies in what can be classified as ad hoc rural initiatives in contested landscapes, initiated by local or grassroots actors to foster a specific conceptualization of region. While specific programming varies for different groups, rural regionalism addressed the balance between and interconnections of landscape and land use change, social networks, economic viability, and impacts of global industry. Central to the case studies are actors' efforts to create a regional identity, including forming institutions, defining regional boundaries, and identifying social/symbolic shapes for the region. The research discusses the importance of viewing regionalization through the lens of agency.     

Self-Consistency Estimation of Distributions Based on Truncated and Doubly Censored Survival Data with Applications to AIDS Cohort Studies

Gomez and Lagakos (1994) propose a nonparametric method for estimating the distribution of a survival time when the origin and end points defining the survival time suffer interval-censoring and right-censoring, respectively. In some situations, the end point also suffers interval-censoring as well as truncation. In this paper, we consider this general situation and propose a two-step estimation procedure for the estimation of the distribution of a survival time based on doubly interval-censored and truncated data. The proposed method generalizes the methods proposed by DeGruttola and Lagakos (1989) and Sun (1995) and is more efficient than that given in Gomez and Lagakos (1994). The approach is based on self-consistency equations. The method is illustrated by an analysis of an AIDS cohort study.     

In defence of disability studies: a response to Forshaw (2007) 'In defence of psychology: a reply to Goodley and Lawthom (2005)'

We welcome Forshaw's reply to our paper because it opens up debate about psychology and its relationship with the development of an emancipatory disability studies. In our paper we aimed to: (1) raise possibilities for disability studies researchers' engagement with psychology (rather than psychology colonizing disability studies); (2) trace some of the epistemological journeys we underwent in carrying out disability research and community psychology research; (3) consider these possibilities and journeys in relation to previous literature on emancipatory disability research. Forshaw's reply appears to ignore aims (2) and (3) and instead focuses on the ways in which we (mis)represent psychology. He suggests that we: present an inaccurate account of qualitative research in contemporary psychology; make a divisive argument for a 'breakaway group' of community psychologists; epistemologically contradict ourselves because of our concern with 'reality' and social constructionism; argue for only adopting participatory action research; not least, adopt 'simplistic' and 'outdated' views of psychology. We will respond to these criticisms.