The Chinese writer as empty signifier: a corpus-based analysis of the English-language reporting of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature

This study examines the English-language reporting of the award in 2012 of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Chinese author, Mo Yan. Through the corpus-based analysis of news reporting in four countries, the study found that Mo was discursively produced as an “empty signifier” through which significant cultural-political work was done in an attempt to make sense of and manage a resurgent China. Specifically, the global cultural event of the Nobel Prize in Literature was used in the USA, Australian, and French news media largely to reproduce the dominant human rights discourse in which China's dissidents were highly prominent and highly valued. In the news media of the more culturally proximate India, the literary achievement was given greater prominence. The study's keyword and concordance analyses found a high degree of commonality in the linguistic strategies through which China was represented. The findings revealed that the English-language reporting of the Nobel Prize was characterized by narrow cosmopolitanism, in which “they” were invited to become part of “our” free world.     

Strong previsions of random elements

LetC be a class of arbitrary real random elements andP an extended real valued function onC. Two definitions of coherence forP are compared. Both definitions reduce to the classical de Finetti's one whenC includes bounded random elements only. One of the two definitions (called strong coherence) is investigated, and some criteria for checking it are provided. Moreover, conditions are given for the integral representation of a coherentP, possibly with respect to a δ-additive probability. Finally, the two definitions and the integral representation theorems are extended to the case whereC is a class of random elements taking values in a given Banach space.     

Hogging the road

This essay examines how aesthetic, corporate and cultural formations have radically altered. motorcycling and its image over the past two decades as a means to highlight more general changes in cultural politics, citizenship and governing through culture. The essay begins with the Guggenheim's The Art of the Motorcycle exhibit, treated. as a means for shaping and governing thought and conduct about and on motorcycles. The essay then addresses numerous articulations between aesthetic criteria and economic practices that have benefited. corporate and professional entities at the expense of long-time motorcyclists. Lastly, the essay formulates genealogical criteria for assessing attempts to represent culture in the hopes of more actively engaging in struggles over not just representation, but the activation of modes of thought, conduct and citizenship.     

图书馆知识信息的表示及处理技术研究

随着知识表示研究的深入 ,出现了多种知识表示方式 ,常见的几种知识表示方式为产生式表示法、语义网络表示法以及面向对象表示法等。本文利用这几种知识表示法充分表达了复合图书馆的知识信息     

The Uniqueness of the Child–Father Attachment Relationship: Fathers' Sensitive and Challenging Play as a Pivotal Variable in a 16-year Longitudinal Study

This longitudinal study of forty‐four families explored fathers’ as compared to mothers’ specific contribution to their children's attachment representation at ages 6, 10, and 16 years. In toddlerhood, fathers’ and mothers’ play sensitivity was evaluated with a new assessment, the sensitive and challenging interactive play scale (SCIP). Fathers’ SCIP scores were predicted by fathers’ caregiving quality during the first year, were highly consistent across 4 years, and were closely linked to the fathers’ own internal working model of attachment. Qualities of attachment as assessed in the Strange Situation to both parents were antecedents for children's attachment security in the Separation Anxiety Test at age 6. Fathers’ play sensitivity and infant–mother quality of attachment predicted children's internal working model of attachment at age 10, but not vice versa. Dimensions of adolescents’ attachment representations were predicted by fathers’ play sensitivity only. The results confirmed our main assumption that fathers’ play sensitivity is a better predictor of the child's long‐term attachment representation than the early infant–father security of attachment. The ecological validity of measuring fathers’ sensitive and challenging interactive play behavior as compared to infant proximity seeking in times of distress is highlighted. Findings are discussed with respect to a wider view on attachment in that both parents shape their children's psychological security but each in his or her unique way.     

《金粉世家》与《红楼梦》

《金粉世家》是张恨水小说的代表作,也是20世纪中国文学的重要收获,这与张恨水对《红楼梦》的学习、借鉴甚至模仿是分不开的。笔者认为,《金粉世家》在主题思想、人物形象塑造和艺术表现技巧上都自觉不自觉受《红楼梦》之深刻影响,可以说,《红楼梦》对《金粉世家》的创作来说具有原型的意义。     

情态与情态系统的体现：系统功能语言学的视觉

从系统功能语言学的角度探讨英语情态的本质及其体现。情态本质上属于主观范畴,情态是由特定语句中的小句来实现的。语境对情态的体现及其意义的确定有着重要的作用,而句子的不同的构成方式所体现的情态在意义上有着取向的不同。     

政治代表论——兼论我国人民代表大会制度的理论基础

政治代表问题涉及现代社会政治的本质,政府代表性强弱体现了政府与社会之间的契合程度,代表的内容在规范的意义上是公共利益和公共意志。现代政府基于对社会的代表性而存在,但代表性实现的机制却并非一种,其间差别在很大程度上源于各国历史、文化、传统等方面的差异。政治代表理论为我们准确把握政治的实质提供了一条重要的思路,也为探讨我国人民代表大会制度的理论基础提供了一个颇具意义的视角。     

A copula‐graphic estimator for the conditional survival function under dependent censoring

Rivest Wells (2001) showed that in situations where the dependence between a lifetime and a censoring variable can be modeled by a given Archimedean copula, the copula‐graphic estimator of Zheng Klein (1995) has an explicit form. The authors extend this work to the fixed design regression case. They show that the copula‐graphic estimator then has an asymptotic representation and a Gaussian limit. They also assess the influence of a misspecified copula function on the performance of the estimator. Their developments are illustrated with data on the survival of the Atlantic halibut.     

汉语言的二维指向与中国古代文论的简与繁

汉字的“象”性构造和多样性外衍指向,使古代文论的表达具有简约和繁复两种风格。对于深刻的义理用以少总多或具象隐喻“一语而尽”;对于经验世界的多样性,则上下左右反复详言之,使“情貌无遗”。这两种风格,使文论述说表现出虚实相生、繁简结合的诗性之美。