“换词求雅”的修辞作用及衔接功能

“换词求雅”作为一种消极修辞手段,在避免重复、增加文章的文体色彩方面起到了积极的作用。不仅如此,作为一种衔接手段,“换词求雅”也在保证语篇的衔接与连贯上发挥着不可替代的作用。本文通过对这种辞手段的应用原则及分类方法的阐述,试图表明“换词求雅”并不是为了语言花哨的目的而存在的,无论从修辞还是语法意义角度上看,这一修辞方法的作用都是其他方法难以替代的。     

以意义为中心的布鲁纳文化心理学研究

美国著名教育心理学家和认知心理学家杰罗姆·布鲁纳,提出了以意义为中心的认知心理学体系,强调跨学科融合,推动了心理学和人类学的整合,探讨意义生成的过程与机制,形成了以意义与叙事为中心的文化心理学。布鲁纳建立的文化心理学通过对叙事实践的研究,探讨文化在经验、记忆和社会行为的形成过程中的作用,不仅促进了心理学和人类学的研究和理论化,还直接影响了教育、医学和法律领域的研究与实践,为理解文化与心智的关系做出了杰出的贡献。     

习近平外交话语英译的叙事建构 ——以《论坚持推动建构人类命运共同体》为例

作为习近平外交专著,《论坚持推动建构人类命运共同体》集中体现了新时代中国特色社会主义外交思想,全面体现了习近平外交叙事风格。以莫娜·贝克的叙事学概念为基础对习近平外交话语及英译进行分析,既能凸显译者作为翻译主体的作用和功效,又有助于中国外交叙事的建构。通过叙事策略的运作,包括建构时空、选择性采用文本素材、建构标示以及再定位人物事件,译文重构了习近平外交话语的本体叙事、公共叙事、概念叙事以及元叙事。同时,叙事学与外交翻译的结合不仅拓宽叙事学学科领域,为外交话语研究提供新视角,而且为完成既定的翻译使命提供了新的路径参考。保持政治上的高度、揣摩文化上的深度、把握思维上的向度以及巧用技能上的广度都成为译者顺利完成叙事建构的重要因素。     

个体身份与生命意义：肺癌网络社区的疾病叙事

文章通过对国内"医享网"癌症社区"肺癌圈"中33篇精华帖的叙事分析,探究其中生命故事的主体对自我身份的建构路径及其对生命价值的意义探寻,并尝试性地提出一些反思。研究发现,在自述和他述生命故事中,叙事者在信息寻求过程中改善自我印象,并运用"写作疗法""阅读疗法"和叙事隐喻理解疾病,帮助患者重塑自身角色。通过社群互动,患者形塑了对自身的身份认同,并形成了集体层面的生命价值观。从本研究的结论看,疾病叙事是癌症网络社区患者建构个体身份、形成身份认同的重要途径,叙事或可成为未来增进社会对癌症乃至其他疾病的理解、推进治疗与康复的可行之路。     

敦煌叙事文献《大目乾连冥间救母变文》英译的描写研究

“目连救母”是对中国民间习俗、戏曲文化等产生了深远影响的文化故事。《大目乾连冥间救母变文并图一卷并序》是敦煌出土的载述该故事的唐五代时期文献。二十世纪中期以来,汉学家们先后对该文献进行了英译,其成为在西方文化语境讲释“孝道”这一中国传统伦理思想的文字载体。通过双语语料的描写与对比,收集可观察的文本数据,可探究汉学家英译重构敦煌“救母”叙事过程中的决策机制和特点,以便为多语文化语境中“中国故事”的翻译与传播提供理论参照。     

第一次世界大战期间英国伤残士兵抚恤金制度改革

伤残士兵抚恤金制度是第一次世界大战期间英国政府对退伍的伤残士兵发放抚恤补贴的制度。第一次世界大战爆发后，英国政府对这项制度进行了一系列的改革。新自由主义社会思潮的影响、英国民众的推动以及维护军队的稳定等是造成这种转变的主要原因。     

An Individual Mixed‐Evaluation Method for Career Intervention

Economic issues linked to career counseling are a cause for concern to policy makers in developed countries because they expect career practitioners to provide evidence of the efficiency of career counseling interventions. The aim of this study was to test an individual evaluation method mixing time series (outcomes) and life narrative (processes). The method used 5 items related to 1 client's career decision self‐efficacy and studied the evolution of those items throughout the intervention of 1 career counselor (43 days). Changepoint analysis helped in identifying the changes that have to be taken into account for time series and which are contextualized in the client's verbatim analysis. This mixed method highlighted that the career counselor's intervention increased the client's career decision self‐efficacy. Practitioners could use the methodology proposed in this article to evaluate their interventions. They could also report their practice to clients, employers, and decision makers.     

A Narrative Approach to Pregnancy‐related Discrimination and Leader–follower Relationships

This study sheds light on women's perceptions of pregnancy‐related discrimination committed by the discriminated woman's immediate leader. The purpose is to show how women describe this perception during pregnancy and after their return to working life after maternity leave. Further, the study explores the ways in which the quality of the leader–follower relationship is revealed during the narration process. The research draws on five individual stories, collected in two rounds of interviews. Representations of several kinds of discriminatory practices can be found in the narratives and reveal that even being a partner in a good‐quality leader–follower relationship does not necessarily protect a woman from pregnancy‐related discrimination. However, women involved in a high‐quality leader–follower relationship described their perceptions in a more positive manner than those in a low‐quality relationship. The contribution of the article to the literature is twofold: firstly, the results challenge the traditional view that high‐quality leader–member exchange relationships lead to positive outcomes. Secondly, examining the different ways in which people describe their perceptions of discrimination deepens our understanding of the equality problems that working women face.     

Awareness of low self-control: Theory and evidence from a homeless shelter

Survey measures of self-control provide a potential low-cost alternative to incentivized elicitation. However, asking respondents to introspect on their self-control problems may instead measure their awareness of them, especially in populations with low self-control. We illustrate this with the Ameriks, Caplin, Leahy, and Tyler (2007) survey, which captures self-control problems through the deviation between self-reported ideal and predicted behavior (Expected Deviation, ED). Previous empirical evidence from high income or highly educated populations correlates larger ED with worse outcomes. We theoretically show that the reverse will be true in settings where awareness can play a large role: when self-control is low and costly commitment devices are available. We empirically show that, for residents of a homeless shelter, ED is positively correlated to savings in shelter lockboxes, a costly commitment device. This correlation is stronger for those likely to experience more self-control problems: individuals with past addiction problems.     

A CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPIST IN PRIMARY MENTAL HEALTH

This paper outlines the author's application of psychodynamic thinking and approaches to brief therapeutic work with children, adolescents and their families in community mental health settings. It is the author's belief that systemic and narrative therapy insights and techniques combine well with psychoanalysis in the assessment and treatment of many concerns felt and expressed by parents and young people. The therapist's tasks are to listen empathically to clients who are in distress and to explore the clients' beliefs about the origins of their problems, as well as their previously attempted solutions. In proceeding at the family's pace, opportunities arise for facilitating more effective ways of resolving conflict. Clients are often more free than they realise to change their interpretation of their experience, and this has important consequences for the maintenance and solution of problems. Brief therapy seeks to remind clients of their strengths and resources and to share ways to encourage clients to resume effective ways of learning about themselves.