象外之音:南阳汉画像石听觉因素的视觉表现形式

南阳汉画像石的视觉表现语言,利用"通感"来表现听觉的音乐感,利用"频闪"来表现听觉的节奏感和韵律感,常常让人感受到听觉艺术的魅力,并给人以音乐般的独特审美感受,从而表现了汉代艺术的活力和魅力。     

多模态平面商业广告语篇的整体意义构建

随着数字化时代的到来和多媒体技术的广泛应用,人们的交流方式逐渐地多模态化,话语分析的研究范围也随之由原来的单模态的文字扩展到包括图片、声音、颜色、影像等在内的多模态语言。本文以韩礼德系统功能语言学的三大功能为基础,以Kress和van Leeuwen创建的视觉语法为理论框架,从再现意义、互动意义和构成意义三个方面分析一则多模态平面商业广告,探讨多模态广告语篇的整体意义构建,从而验证多模态语篇中各种符号资源之间的互动和互补关系。      

功能语言学视角下的多模态语篇符号间的衔接研究

以功能语言学理论为基础,对多模态语篇中视觉符号和文字符号之间的衔接关系进行了的总结和扩充。扩大了多模态语篇中不同符号之间衔接范围,把人际意义衔接和语境衔接纳入符号间的衔接范围。并且对人际意义衔接和语境衔接分别进行了详细的阐述。对人际意义衔接的阐述主要从语气结构和态度系统两个方面,对语境衔接主要从文化语境和上下文语境两个方面阐述。     

沈从文的文化阐释视阈与创作价值取向

沈从文价值取向呈动态特征。湘西独特的文化精神,20世纪初中国传统文化的转型,西方社会科学理论与方法的采借下对中国文化的重新理解和再阐释,这些因素共同铸就了沈从文的理解前见,渗透进了其文学活动中,就使他能够运用文化整体、文化相对论思想,对各种文化进行跨文化比较,走向对湘西文化乃至整个国家民族文化进行全方位和整体性的解读,实现了文化理解、文化阐释视阈的融合,使创作视野不断突破,从创作初、中期的湘西文化本土阐释到创作后期的国家民族整体文化理解与阐释后,提高到创作晚期的对人类整体文化的理解与阐释。     

说服传播视角下国家形象的构建逻辑与进路——以2022年冬奥会申办为例

国家形象的现实意义正在被证实和挖掘。通过分析北京申冬奥代表团借助宣传片和陈述代表在吉隆坡申冬奥陈述会中所构建的中国国家形象及其说服力可以发现：在体育类外事活动中,构建国家形象的主体架构、符号元素、修辞及逻辑内涵等都对国家形象的说服力强弱有重要影响;陈述会中,中国“自塑”的国家形象说服了国际奥委会成员,但是并没有说服西方强势媒体等,甚至与其“他塑”的中国形象之间存在着较大差异。基于这些分析结果,可以总结出在体育类外事活动中构建良好国家形象的方向进路。     

Resisting sexism and speciesism in the social sciences: Using feminist,species‐inclusive,visual methods to value the work of women and (other) animals

Visual methods offer social scientists some promising possibilities for valuing the work of women and animals in domestic homes and formal organizations, such as schools, hospitals, residential care facilities and other workplaces. In this article, we consider how visual methods might be used to ‘put women and animals in the frame’. We draw data and inspiration from our What is it About Animals study [2015–2016], which involved an online call for people over 16 years of age, to post pictures, poems, stories and videos depicting what animals mean to them. We pay attention to attempts to resist sexism and speciesism in the valuing of work, including emotional labour. We consider the possibility of post‐humanist methods for animal subject‐hood, and a sociology of animals, emotions and work. We end with a discussion of possible future visual methods projects to value the work of women and (other) animals.     

Conforming for survival: Associations between transgender visual conformity/passing and homelessness experiences

Transgender/gender-nonconforming (GNC) individuals face widespread discrimination and harassment, and are frequently victims of transphobic acts of violence. Furthermore, transgender/GNC individuals are twice as likely to experience homelessness as other members of the at-large population. This study uses a national survey (N = 6,456) to examine, specifically among transgender/GNC individuals, relationships between homelessness experiences and visual conformity/passing, and how this population's shelter-based experiences may differ based on the level to which an individual visually conforms. Results suggest that lower visual conformity/passing is positively associated with homelessness as well as negative experiences incurred while accessing shelters. Social service implications are subsequently discussed.     

Learning how to be (a) patient: visual analysis of accessible health information leaflets for people with intellectual disabilities

Creation of jargon-free Easy Read health texts, incorporating carefully chosen words and images, is promoted as a way of removing health access barriers for people with intellectual disabilities. Using a social semiotic framework, this article explores the social construction of the patient with intellectual disabilities within a sample of adapted health texts, focusing on the visual images used. Images were coded and analysed according to dimensions suggested by Kress and van Leeuwen’s work on ‘visual grammar’. Images highlight the inclusion of patients with intellectual disabilities in mainstream healthcare settings. However, these patients are depicted as being inserted into somewhat idealized healthcare routines that are pre-determined and micro-managed through to completion. Consideration of risks and choices associated with healthcare use are downplayed. The article concludes that the care of patients with intellectual disabilities continues to constitute potential trouble for mainstream healthcare providers, rather than being an expected aspect of everyday practice.     

People with sight impairment in the world of visual arts: does it make any sense?

Abstract

The article describes an educational and artistic project in Poland where individuals with sight impairments could learn more about visual arts through guided city tours around their greatest monuments, appreciation of art pieces and meetings with artists. During workshops, they could test their own artistic skills by creating tactile drawings, pottery sculptures, photographs and tactile picture book. The effects of their attempts were presented in a temporary exhibition in the contemporary art gallery (with an associated educational program). The exhibition was a significant experience both for the artists with visual impairments and the visitors. Through analysis of the structure and content of the artworks, the gallery visitors could understand more about the situation of people with sight impairments as they struggle with everyday tasks and how creative they are.     

Problems of Taxonomy,Issues of Class,Citizenship, Consumption,and Avdot’ia Smirnova’s KoKoKo (2012)

Sundry discussions of Russian society by scholars, journalists, and politicians suffer from imprecise taxonomy, wielding labels such as middle class, civil society, and creative class in an automatic transfer of discursive categories long defining Western societies to one at increasing odds with numerous Western values. As various surveys by Russian sociologists have indicated, a ‘middle class’ and ‘civil society’ in the traditional sense do not exist in Russia. Moreover, even ‘the intelligentsia’, as historically defined, seems to have diminished, evaporated, or emigrated. Indeed, the incisive portrayal of contemporary Russian class distinctions in Avdot’ia Smirnova’s film KoKoKo (2012) exposes the impotence of the self-serving intelligentsia, contrasted to the vitality and drive of ‘the people’, who may be the only hope for Russia’s future – neither the radiant future fantasized by the Soviet Union nor the democratic future that seemed possible after perestroika, but one that meaningful resistance to the authoritarianism of Putin’s regime will need to elaborate step by painstaking step.