数字媒介时代文学中图像符号的叙事

在21世纪的数字网络媒介语境中,用图像符号进行叙事表达渐成主导。文学文本中的图像符号的功能也在扩大,有的图像符号在文学文本中主要起装饰美化和引发读者兴趣的作用,有的图像符号的叙事功能已经无法被语言文字取代。图像符号作为文学的辅助性符号,与语言符号一同在文学文本中组织叙事,这不但影响了文学文本的形态和审美,对文学的形态、形象和意蕴也产生了重大影响。     

语言磨蚀新问题 ——回归假说质疑

雅克布逊回归假说是语言磨蚀领域中传统的假说,随着语言磨蚀研究进一步深化,相当多的学者认可了该假说.然而,比较失语症幼儿的语言习得和磨蚀的研究结果未能证实回归假说,对健康人群的研究同样未能证实回归假说,记忆学和心理学领域也没有理论足以支持回归假说,回归假说还有很大的验证空间,它也可能并不符合语言磨蚀规律.     

国外儿童语言研究综述

国外儿童语言研究源于儿童心理研究,历经了心理学、语言学双重取向的研究和儿童语言研究的独立学科等过程。期间的研究成果丰富,揭示了儿童语言词汇、语法、语义、语用习得和发展的特点。     

试探土家语语源

根据湖南龙山里耶近年发现的大量秦简,对土家语语源进行探讨。在土家语语源“巴人说”和“江西说”之间,笔者基于近三年来对大量土家语村寨的调查,认为土家语是由大量江西迁来者带来的母语。     

论翻译是有效的外语学习策略

行为主义的学习理论提倡学习外语应如同母语般的直接理解和使用,完全逾越翻译这一过程。而基于认知主义和建构主义的二语习得理论,则认为外语学习者应充分利用母语知识来认知和建构外语技能。其实翻译活动应为一种外语学习策略,它不仅可以当作一种认知、记忆、情感、社交和补偿学习策略,同时也能促进词汇、阅读、写作等外语技能的发展,并对不同程度的学习者起到积极的促进作用。     

土家语环境分析及保护之管见

民族语言是民族的灵魂,是最具民族特征的非物质文化。土家语是接近濒危的一个语种,无论是它的地理环境还是它人文环境,对它长期生存都十分不利。为此,有必要对土家语采取一些有效的保护措施,给它营造一种宽松的生存环境,让它长期生存下去。     

电视的艺术创造潜力分析

电视具有三大功能:信息传播功能、新闻纪实功能、艺术表现功能。长期以来,电视的信息传播功能和新闻纪实功能得到了理论界和业界的广泛重视,但对电视的艺术表现功能认识曾一度陷入矛盾和怀疑。电视具有形象性的艺术特征,其语言结构、思维方式、独特的时空表现艺术都使电视表现出鲜明的艺术特征和巨大的艺术创造潜力。     

The white native speaker and inequality regimes in the private English language school

Private English language schools market the language as a tool that helps one connect with others from different cultures. Despite their promotion of English aiding in intercultural communication, these institutions may believe that only the white native speaker is the ideal teacher of the language. This valuing of the white native speaker can consequently act as an organisational inequality regime that marginalises nonwhite teachers. Using qualitative interviews with 10 nonwhite instructors working in schools in Toronto, Canada, this article investigates the ways in which these teachers experience the inequality regime of the white native speaker at work. The findings indicate that the teachers experience this inequality regime as a series of microaggressions that involve space, competence and customer desire. The article concludes with suggestions to dismantle inequality regimes in private institutions.     

On the conditions of authority in academic publics

The discourse of some of the most powerful public figures in today’s world is often incoherent and nonsensical. Incoherent yet authoritative discourse shows that authority does not rest in language but results from non‐linguistic and pre‐textual conditions. The non‐linguistic and pre‐textual conditions are exemplified in an Australian case‐study of a media debate between the Immigration Minister and a refugee, drawing on research by Smith‐Khan (2019a, 2019b). Two such conditions are then examined with reference to academic publics. First, I ask which languages do or do not carry authority, before moving on to speaker identity as a condition of authority. The close association between English and academic excellence has resulted in diminishing the authority of academic publications in languages other than English. The same is true of publications by women and people of colour. I close by reflecting on referencing practices as forms of extending authoritativeness to voices in excluded languages and from excluded scholars in academic publics.     

Design of ISD-1: an instrument for social diagnosis in care homes for older persons*

This article describes the design process and main features of an instrument developed for use in the specialist area of intervention in care homes for older persons. The essential aim of ISD-1 (instrument for social diagnosis) is to permit the correct formulation of social diagnoses and to standardise and define the professional language used by social workers. Its content has been organised into 4 dimensions of social diagnosis, divided into 15 sub-dimensions containing 83 diagnostic categories. This work was performed in Spain, in the 24 care homes of the Madrid Social Care Agency of the Community of Madrid, involving the participation of the 40 social workers practising in these centres. ISD-1 is an easily understood and used tool, of potential use for social workers practising in care homes for older persons and capable of being adapted for use in other institutional environments, as well as being capable of adaptation and translation for its application in other countries.