The price of salt☆: the capable self in the face of heteronormative marriage pressure in the discourses of the “post-90s” Chinese lesbians

This article presents two sets of recorded interview data in which young Chinese lesbians (i.e. born in the 1990s) performatively negotiate a capable and neoliberalized identity in narrating how their relationships are threatened by heteronormative marriage pressure. In applying discourse analysis to examine aspects of performativity and agency in the data, this study determined the ways in which the participants made use of language to index different ideologies. The findings suggest that the discursive strategies adopted by the “post-90s” lesbian subjects in dealing with marriage pressure reflect the influence of both neoliberal and nonliberal ideologies in contemporary China. The strategies demonstrate neoliberal reductionism because structural pressure was reduced to practical problems that could be settled by personal agency. They also demonstrated the nonliberal elements of Chinese sociocultural values because subject positions which are typical in heteronormative discourses were used to normalize lesbian practices. However, the participants’ discourses index new desires that are specific to this generation, which has significant exposure to global queer ideologies. Thus, the results indicate that in response to marriage pressure, a capable and neoliberalized lesbian identity could be constructed at the intersection of sociocultural heteronormative ideologies, neoliberal values in contemporary China, and global queer discourses.     

早期教育：从“质量话语”走向“意义生成话语”——来自《超越早期教育保育质量》的启示

在发达国家的早期教育领域中,资本扩张、早期教育机构追逐、社会大众追捧使得质量话语一直占据主导地位。在《超越早期教育保育质量》一书中,三位学者对此提出了质疑,并主张超越"质量话语",追求"意义生成话语"。然而"质量话语"的存在可以为早期教育发展树立标杆,提供参考依据,而且在我国早期教育领域中,质量话语仍处于一种不被重视的尴尬境地。因此,现阶段我国的早期教育发展不应该贸然超越"质量话语",追求"意义生成话语",而应该在重视"质量话语"的前提下,逐渐走向"意义生成话语"。     

Social support,parental role competence and satisfaction among Chinese mothers and fathers in the early postpartum period: A cross-sectional study

BackgroundA sense of parental competence and satisfaction during the transition to parenthood can have a tremendous impact on the quality of parenting behaviors, with social support being an important facilitator.AimTo examine parental role competence and satisfaction of Chinese mothers and fathers in the early postpartum period with regard to social support.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted in a regional teaching hospital in Guangzhou, China. The study was conducted between June 5 and November 16, 2015. One hundred and eighty parental pairs at 6–8 weeks after birth completed the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale, Perceived Social Support Scale, and socio-demographic questionnaires.ResultsParental role competence and satisfaction of Chinese mothers and fathers were at a moderate level, affected each other and there were no significant differences between the mothers and the fathers. The Competence Scale scores had a significant positive correlation with social support. Multiple regression analysis revealed two variables that predicted maternal Competence Scale scores: maternal social support and the paternal Competence Scale scores. Paternal social support and maternal Competence Scale scores contributed significantly to paternal Competence Scale scores.ConclusionParental role competence and satisfaction of mothers and fathers were at a moderate level and affected by the parenting partner. To improve parental role competence and satisfaction, health care professionals should develop strategies that impact the whole family and not just a single individual. Supportive parenting programs should be implemented for both mothers and fathers.     

“儿童作为研究者”对儿童学习品质发展的价值

"儿童作为研究者"打破了过去儿童在研究中处于被动地位的局面,尊重儿童作为社会行为者和参与者的主体地位,提倡以儿童视角研究儿童问题。儿童参与或领导研究能够增加儿童活动参与的广度与深度、促进了幼儿园教育方式的民主化、拓宽了社会文化环境的多元性和开放程度,为儿童学习品质的发展提供了良好的外部支持。这种新兴的研究取向帮助儿童在好奇心与兴趣、主动性、创造与发明等学习品质上获得了长足的发展,为儿童学习品质的发展提供了独特契机。     

“We don’t have to talk about how I feel”: emotionality as a tool of resistance in political discourse among Israeli students – a gendered socio-linguistic perspective

This article demonstrates how the gendered patriarchal mechanisms that exclude women from the political sphere are being produced, re-produced, and challenged in interpersonal political conversations by concentrating on the discursive mechanisms that construct the way young Israeli women and men talk about politics. The research is based on a yearlong intra-group dialog process. The group met for weekly sessions during two semesters, in which the group members discussed and expressed their thoughts and feelings regarding the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) demonstrated how the political space is being marked, defined and delimited through gendered discursive practices. We present the different roles participants take in the group, and in particular the different strategies women use in face of disciplinary discursive mechanisms. The process revealed that the development in the group discussion was strongly intertwined with the change in the positioning strategies of the female participants. In particular, we found that women deployed emotionality as a tool of resistance that challenges gender binaries and masculine dominance. Our conclusion highlights the importance of the daily interactions in creating, sustaining and changing the political discourse of a society in conflict.     

金钥匙:人文学理研究方法论

人文学理研究的方法论是一把金钥匙。凡是学有成者都颇为重视方法论的运作,高明的人文学理研究方法不仅处处闪烁着辩证法的亮点,而且还用改良的思维、手法,运用了发现方法、溯因方法与实验方法等三元方法论,开拓着人本学、文化学的广阔的时域空间。显然,运作一定的方法论,还需运作着相应的学理式文论话语、阐释法分析话语和细读法鉴赏话语。总之,关于方法论与学理话语的运作对人文学理的研究者特别是入门者都有启迪效应。     

从形式的嵌合到含义的产生--一则科技新闻语篇分析及启示

文章分析一则国外医学科技报道的杂合性形式及多重意义,证明语篇分析有助于理解语言交际的社会性实质,表明动态语境下体裁的意义潜势的综合运用过程,并提出社会发展和语言使用之间的深层互动关系.     

英语文章的篇章策略与篇章解读初探

教学篇章语言学中有关英语篇章模式及篇章策略连续体的知识,非常适合英语阅读教学。本文试图借用其相关知识,在学生头脑中建立起英文篇章模式和篇章连续体的概念,提高学生的阅读技能。     

平均频率合成技术

提出一种新的平均频率合成技术，给出了两种较实用的实现方法。平均频率合成技术的特点是瞬时频率不稳定，而平均频率的误差很小。平均频率合成器具有电路简单及换频方便、快捷的优点。文中给出的分频法平均频率合成器已成功地用于作者所设计的Ｂ超仪中。     

新闻宣传在高校思想政治工作中的作用

新闻宣传是高校思想政治工作的重要方面。它依赖校内外特定的传媒,诸如校刊、广播、电视、网络、公共传媒,在高校思想政治工作和改革发展事业中发挥着独特且重要的引导、沟通、激励作用。必须克服来自认识不足、管理体制矛盾、题材有限性削弱、社会生活的多元化冲击所带来的困惑。要统一思想、加强建设投入,以“联系”、“实在”、“信服”、“创新”、“引导”的思路,强化高校新闻宣传工作的多样性、丰富性、层次性、针对性、实效性。