Narrative Structures and the Catholic Church Closings in Detroit

We distinguish narrative structures as master frames from stories as actual telling of events, and show how they operated in the case of the Catholic church closings in Detroit in the late 1980s. Narrative structures drawn from Detroit industrial history and from reform in the Catholic church were imposed on the actual events constituting the closing process, and powerfully defined the terms of public discussion and debate about the meaning of the closings.     

比较结构难点解析

英语中有许多形式和意义都较复杂的比较结构,对这些比较结构的形式和意义的掌握和理解是非常重要的。该文通过具体实例对英语中比较结构的难点进行了探讨和归纳。     

土木工程专业人才培养模式探讨

土木工程专业人才培养应当适应科技发展、社会需求和国际竞争的要求,构建一个使受教育者具有合理的知识、能力、素质结构的全面发展的人才培养模式.文章通过土木工程专业教学计划的制定,在更新教学内容、调整课程体系、构建培养方案等方面做了有益探索.     

新疆天山北坡经济带产业结构调整机制研究

地方政府行为在生产过程和销售过程干预强度的不对等性,导致生产与销售在一定程度上的脱节;与强政 府行为伴生的地方利益和诸侯经济导致农业产业结构调整过程中主要农产品基地分散,引发产业结构趋同和恶性 竞争是天山北坡经济带侧重干政府主导型混合推动的产业结构调整机制中存在的主要问题。必须进一步转变地方 政府职能,创新农业产业化经营模式;降低工业企业对传统能源消耗的依赖度;逐步改变第三产业的非均衡发展 状态。     

晚清翻译小说的叙事模式研究

采用的理论框架是一种以译入语文化为主体的翻译研究,安德烈.勒菲弗尔是该学派的代表人物之一。作者以勒菲弗尔的“诗学”观点作为切入点,从叙事视角、叙事结构和叙事顺序三方面阐述晚清译者如何改变原文叙事模式,以适应译入语的文学惯例,满足当时读者的审美情趣。     

Personalization: From Story‐line to Practice

Personalization has become a unifying theme and a dominant narrative across public services in England. Key to understanding the dominance of personalization is the recognition that it is a story that is told about public services, their history and the roles and experiences of the people who use them and work in them. Like other stories it is compelling, emotionally resonant, but also multi‐interpretable. This article identifies five key themes which are central to the personalization story‐line, noting their reliance on a combination of formal evidence, personal narratives and common sense. These are: (1) personalization works, transforming people's lives for the better; (2) person‐centred approaches reflect the way people live their lives, rather than artificial departmental boundaries; (3) personalization is applicable to everyone, not just to people with social care needs; (4) people are experts on their own lives; (5) personalization will save money. The article goes on to examine some of the complexities that audiences face in translating a story‐line into policy programmes and frontline practice. Three aspects in particular are considered: the ambiguity of personalization as a guide to action; the tensions between user empowerment and user responsibility; and the extent to which personalization is used to legitimize other reforms, in particular budget cuts.     

Narrative persuasion by corporate CSR messages: The impact of narrative richness on attitudes and behavioral intentions via character identification,transportation, and message credibility

The current study examines the persuasiveness of narrative richness in messages about acts of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Specifically, we apply theory about narrative persuasion to the domain of corporate communication. Focusing on Coca-Cola’s clean water project, a cross-national experiment (n = 659) was conducted in which the narrative richness and the source cue of a CSR message were manipulated, and the effects on (a) message processing (specifically via character identification, transportation, and credibility), (b) attitude towards the company, and subsequent (c) behavioral intention were measured. Considering the global nature of Coca-Cola, the experiment was simultaneously fielded in the United States and the Netherlands to verify the generalizability of our findings. Robust results in both countries suggest that narratively rich CSR messages can indirectly improve the attitude towards the company and thereby encourage behavioral intentions via character identification and transportation, irrespective of the source cue (company vs. news media). Importantly, message credibility was not compromised by the narrative richness, while being the strongest predictor of company attitude.     

论电影《山楂树之恋》的叙事美学

电影《山楂树之恋》用政治语境下的"纯爱"故事展现人性,其叙事手法与海明威"压力下的光辉"及"冰山原则"有异曲同工之妙。山楂树意象蕴含着三个维度的隐喻:政治和人性、生与死、人与物,从而使影片形成一种富有张力的叙事结构。影片用政治色彩的解构反衬至美的人性光辉,用生命易逝的缺憾凸显人类存在的悲剧宿命,用灰白色调衬托自然永恒的空灵之美。该片是张艺谋艺术风格的转型之作,也是对当代大众娱乐文化的反拨。     

英语主位结构的语篇功能

讨论了英语句子及语篇的主位结构;分析了英语主位结构的语篇功能;得出了主位结构是使语篇实现语意上连贯,结构上衔接的主要手段之一;指出了将该理论运用于英语阅读与写作等教学实践具有实际意义。     

Reviewing performance: an analysis of the structure and functions of performance management reviews

This article proposes an analytical framework for conceptualising performance management reviews (PMRs). Drawing on multiple literatures, the article applies Pettigrew et al.'s (Pettigrew, A., Whipp R., and Rosenfield R., 1989. Competitiveness and the management of strategic change processes. In: A. Francis, and P.K.M. Tharakan, eds. The competitiveness of European industry: country policies and company strategies. London: Routledge) framework to develop our understanding of the context, process and content of PMR. The process elements of PMRs are the levers for managerial intervention as they determine the immediate outcome of PMR. They accomplish this task by acting on the content elements, transforming the subject of PMR into specific outcomes. The scope of the intervention, however, is constrained by factors in the organisation's context. This framework sheds light on various functions of PMRs, most notably strategy implementation.