Emerging adult identity following adolescent experiences with psychotropic medications: A retrospective study

This study examines the perceptions of mental illness identity among a group of emerging adults based on their retrospective experiences with diagnoses and psychotropic medication use during their earlier formative adolescent years. A short questionnaire was administered via online social media platforms to volunteers between the ages of 19 and 30 and who self-identified as having taken psychotropic medication between the ages of 12 and 18 (N = 46). Correlation analysis revealed that several variables were associated with a stronger illness identity, including participant’s happiness with their medication experiences, the belief that medication made them more like their “true” selves, and the belief that their diagnosis was accurate. Content analysis of participant narratives suggested themes related to discontinuation and barriers to adherence. These results contribute to the growing knowledge base around lived experiences of psychiatric medication use and suggest further study on how to advance more informed and compassionate mental health care.     

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.     

论留日“浙江潮”对中国新文学的催生意义

在中国新文学发生前后,曾涌动一股声势颇壮的留日"浙江潮",其间走出一大批对中国新文学作出重大建树的作家。这些作家从日本汲取异域新风,在新文学"前夜"已向"现代"方向发起有力的冲击,在新文学诞生阶段期其主导文学新潮的实质性意义更充分凸显,从中显示出他们对中国新文学的一种催生意义。     

英语新闻标题信息有效性解析

标题被视为新闻报道的窗口,标题信息的有效性直接影响读者获取信息的数量和质量。对标题信息有效性的研究有助于新闻标题的设计,也能够为读者浏览新闻提供一些指导意见。笔者从用词数量,语法特点和词汇选用3个方面对英语新闻标题信息的有效性进行了对比分析。数据统计分析结果表明具有较高信息有效性的标题通常由7±2个词组成,采用主动语态的简单句,精选简短的小词和生动活泼的习语,运用恰到好处的修辞手法。     

汉语动词“遮”掩饰义的产生及其词义系统的演变

魏晋时动词“遮”由对物体位移的阻拦扩大为空间上对光线等的遮蔽,遮蔽义继而在唐代又引申出对事件进行隐瞒的掩饰义。语境的转换凸显了“遮”不同的概念要素,从而诱发新义。“遮”的遮蔽义宋元时已取代拦截义而在该词的词义系统中占主导地位,这与“遮”在“拦截”概念场中的败落时代上基本相当,反映了词汇的词义系统对概念场成员演变的影响。比较汉语和其它语言“拦截”概念的语义地图,可以假设“某词同时有拦截义、掩饰义蕴含该词有遮蔽义”。今人有将作掩饰义讲的“遮”释为“用贿赂去请托”的,忽视了“遮”本身的语义特征。     

黑格尔论述艺术终结的多种维度及其实质意义

从三个维度探讨黑格尔的艺术终结：即黑格尔哲学体系下艺术的终结;从艺术史的发展维度上谈艺术的终结;社会现实的维度上谈论艺术的终结;最后在此基础上探讨出黑格尔艺术终结的实质意义,即无论从哪个维度出发,黑格尔都并没有明确断言艺术终结甚至死亡的意思,只是在社会现实的维度上,黑格尔对艺术的发展确实多了少许的悲观主义,这是因为他没有正确预见艺术正是调和个人和社会矛盾的最好方式,是人“诗意的栖居在大地上”的内在需要,所以艺术不会终结,更不会死亡。     

“言意之辨”从哲学和玄学向诗学的转换——论刘勰的言意观

刘勰的言意观是<文心雕龙>诗学体系中的核心论题,但是龙学界对这一问题却存在着简单化、片面化的理解,其原因就在于他们把哲学和魏晋玄学中的言意之辨等同于诗学中言意关系.刘勰言意观的价值和意义就在于,他对这一论题进行了诗学转换,强调了文学语言在文学创作中的重要性,揭示了文学创作的一般规律,对作家的创作和诗学的发展都产生了重要影响.     

合肥地区房产广告的人际意义初探

广告已经成为了人们生活的一部分。文章收集了合肥地区的房产广告作为语料,分别从人称系统、语气系统和情态系统三个方面分析了房产广告的人际意义：不同的人称代词的使用缩短了与消费者之间的心理和社会距离;不同的语气词选择吸引了消费者的注意力并提供给消费者更多的信息;不同的情态动词、情态副词或词组表达了为消费者提供服务的强烈意愿,使消费者发自内心地接受广告。     

试论尤金·奥尼尔悲剧的美学意蕴

"戏剧最崇高和惟一有意义的功能便是对生活作诗的解释和富有象征的赞美,并把这种宗教传给人们。"在奥尼尔看来,戏剧不仅要给人以哲理性的启示,还应赋有诗意的美学价值。象征意象,是奥尼尔悲剧美学的载体,它对生活所作的诗的解释和富有象征的赞美使其悲剧洋溢着诗意的美感;分裂与对立,是构筑奥尼尔戏剧美学思想的内核与基因;奥尼尔对希腊英雄悲剧传统的继承,使悲剧回响着崇高美学的激越之音;而对处于现代荒原上的人类困境的绝望探索,使这位具有强烈现代意识的作家不可避免地遁入虚无的幻美之境。而奥尼尔的悲剧传达出的深邃的美学意蕴则是建立在其悲剧真实性基础之上的。     

英汉色彩词联想对比的词汇学意义

词汇是语言三大系统中最为活跃的部分,词无定义,义随人生。色彩词的联想意义是由特定的民族文化所铸造的一种附加的或隐含的意义。语言具有承载文化的功能,色彩词联想意义的理解必须参照特定时代特定地域的民族文化,否则便产生失误。本文从文化语言学、及翻译学的角度探讨了英汉色彩词联想意义的共性与个性,分析了造成这些特点的民族文化心理,总结了英汉色彩词对比研究的词汇学重要性。