城乡差分与内外之别:流动人口社会保障研究

流动人口与流入地居民之间最主要的差异集中表现为社会保障福利和其他公共资源的获得。2005年全国1%人口抽样调查数据。分析结果显示,由于户籍类型造成的城乡差分及因户籍地引起的内外之别共同作用于个体社会保障的可获得性,三个人群的社会保障水平呈现出显著的梯级差别,乡-城流动人口处于农村人和外来人的双重弱势;而且,经济越发达,流动人口的社会保障水平越低;而在经济欠发达之地,他们与本地市民的差距较小,呈现出低水平融入的特点。这些发现表明,各级政府改善流动人口社会福利的努力在很大程度上受制于各地区现行的制度安排,而这些制约维系着不同身份人群之间在公共资源可及性和可得性方面的不公。     

Levelling across the life‐span?: Tracing the face vowel in panel data from the North East of England

Apparent time analysis has revealed that the Tyneside face vowel is the site of two intersecting trends: levelling towards the supra‐northern monophthong as well as the gradual incursion of the southern standard closing diphthong. This article investigates the participation of individual speakers across their life‐span in these ongoing changes in the face vowel. We report on a small‐scale panel sample of six speakers who were recorded in 1971 and again, 42 years later, in 2013. The analysis probes the stability of individual speakers’ grammars, relying on longitudinal ethnographic analysis in the community as well as insights gleaned from sociolinguistic interviews about the speakers’ socio‐demographic trajectory and their presentations of self. The article contributes to the growing body of panel research that aims to determine the scope and the limits of linguistic malleability across speakers’ life histories.     

Beyond social networking: Performing global Englishes in Facebook by college youth in Nepal1

Until recently, scholarship on online social networking has mostly focused on issues of social relationship, privacy, identity and literacy. Research on the interface between multilingualism, multimodality and online social networking from a discursive perspective is relatively limited. This ethno‐graphic study draws data from Facebook pages composed and hosted over two years by three economically and educationally privileged undergraduate students in Nepal and uses conceptual constructs of mediascape, convergence culture and global Englishes. The study investigates how the advent of social networking online in Facebook by college youth has influenced their use of the English language and other semiotic resources to index both their local and cosmopolitan identities. Findings suggest that these youth are using social networking to redefine the role of English in relation to their existing social relationships, innovatively mixing English and Nepali in order to construct their bilingual identities, and embedding English with other texts to recontextualize both local and global media content. The paper concludes with a summary of major findings which suggest that online social networking practices have significantly helped to bring about a cultural change among this particular social group in Nepal.      

Comparison of Efficiency of Stratified and Unequal Probability Sampling

In this article, a choice of the optimum sampling design to study a finite population is studied. Three sampling schemes are compared, viz., Sunter's procedure of unequal probability sampling, stratified sampling under optimum stratification, and simple random sampling without replacement. The comparison is made against a background of various correlation between stratification and survey variables and various variability in the variables. Under weak correlation and large variability, stratification appeared to be more efficient than Sunter's procedure. Under strong correlation and/or low variability in the variables, the latter procedure was the most efficient. Simple random sampling was usually the least efficient.     

Optimality of Equal vs. Unequal Cluster Sizes in Multilevel Intervention Studies: A Monte Carlo Study for Small Sample Sizes

Optimality of equal versus unequal cluster sizes in the context of multilevel intervention studies is examined. A Monte Carlo study is done to examine to what degree asymptotic results on the optimality hold for realistic sample sizes and for different estimation methods. The relative D-criterion, comparing equal versus unequal cluster sizes, almost always exceeded 85%, implying that loss of information due to unequal cluster sizes can be compensated for by increasing the number of clusters by 18%. The simulation results are in line with asymptotic results, showing that, for realistic sample sizes and various estimation methods, the asymptotic results can be used in planning multilevel intervention studies.     

Unequal Englishes in the Philippines

In this paper, we show how the notion of unequal Englishes can be deployed as an alternative way of accounting for the global spread of English. Through our data, we show how call‐center agents in the Philippines espouse conflicting ideologies in the workplace that invoke unequal Englishes. On the one hand, they espouse ideologies of privilege by seeing themselves as being able to exploit the resources of English in the call‐center workplace, thus celebrating themselves as proficient users of the language. On the other hand, they also espouse ideologies of delegitimization borne out of pressures to subscribe to American Standard English and the belief in the inherent superiority of ‘native speaker’ Englishes and their varieties. By mobilizing the paper towards unpacking inequalities of Englishes as invoked in the statements of call‐center agents, we hope to contribute to critically engaged discussions of the role of English in the world today.     

论多元文化语境中的世界英语

在研究Kachru的英语世界化理论的基础上 ,本文主要研究英语作为全球性语言在世界各国的变化和发展的特点 ,指出世界英语是在多元文化和语言环境中发展并变化着的语言 ,并形成了各种带有不同地域色彩的语言变体。英语不再为所谓的“标准英语”使用者所独有 ,而是属于具有不同语言文化背景的世界各国的使用者。     

Population Marginal Means in the Linear Model: An Alternative to Least Squares Means

The parameter concept in the term least squares mean is defined and given the more meaningful name population marginal mean; and its estimation is discussed.     

A Parametric Bootstrap Approach for One-Way ANOVA Under Unequal Variances with Unbalanced Data

This research is to provide a solution of one-way ANOVA without using transformation when variances are heteroscedastic and group sizes are unequal. Parametric bootstrap test (Krishnamoorthy et al., 2007 Krishnamoorthy, K., Lu, F., Mathew, T. (2007). A parametric bootstrap approach for anova with unequal variances: Fixed and random models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 51:5731–5742.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) has been shown to be competitive with many other methods when testing the equality of group means. We extend the parametric bootstrap algorithm to a multiple comparison procedure. Simulation results show that the parametric bootstrap approach works well for one-way ANOVA.     

"新英语(New Englishes)"研究——语音、语用特征及英语的前途

作为英语的一种变体,“新英语”在经历了本土化之后,形成了其自身的特征和模式,发音和语用方面与标准英语相比均有很大不同。新英语的发展,使得英语的前途很难预料。