Extending reading research with a focus on cultural understanding and research on intercultural communication: an empirical investigation in Argentina

The work presented here is an empirical study of how advanced learners of English as a foreign language in Argentina access and understand the culture-specific dimensions of literary narrative texts. It has three purposes. First, to extend research into reading in a foreign language to take account of the culture-specific content of texts. Second, to extend the focus of research on intercultural communication to include the analysis of reading processes. Finally, to introduce an approach to the analysis of the cultural dimension of the reading process using a new model of levels of cultural understanding. It is argued that cultural understanding goes beyond the quantification of prior knowledge or background knowledge in the form of idea units as evidence of the comprehension process. In this sense, the proposed model succeeds in portraying a more detailed picture of cultural understanding in this setting.     

模糊词语在日语二外教学中的重要性

日语模糊词语在日语中是一种很重要的语言现象,本文分析日语模糊词语在二外教学中的重要性。首先总结日语模糊表达的几种类型,再运用社会语言学、外语教学法等相关理论剖析该现象形成的文化因素,最后结合日语二外教学现状提出一些改进日语二外教学的建议。     

远德玉技术过程论思想评析

在阅读科技史文献和日语技术论文献的基础上,远德玉教授在国内率先提出"技术是一个过程"的观点.这个观点在他的许多著作中得到了全面的阐述.在同日本学者进行中日技术比较的基础上,远德玉教授从技术过程论转入技术创新的研究,把技术创新看做技术产业化、商业化和社会化的过程.上述研究成果初步奠定了我国技术论和技术创新哲学的理论基础.从技术过程论的研究脉络出发,对远德玉教授的技术过程论和技术创新思想进行了较为全面的回顾和评述,并得出了三个重要的启示.     

当前民族地区新农村建设中农民主体作用发挥情况及其对策研究——以湘西土家族苗族自治州为例

本报告对湘西州新农村建设中农民主体作用发挥情况进行了调查分析。作者认为,当前农民积极参加经济建设、基础设施建设和村容村貌建设,但参与新农村建设规划和方案的制定严重不足,参与民主政治建设和文化建设不够。要充分发挥农民在新农村建设中的积极性、主动性,必须做好以下几方面工作:一是提高干部队伍素质,增强其领导新农村建设的能力和水平。二是做好宣传教育工作,使农民全面正确理解中央关于新农村建设的精神和内容。三是充分认识农民在新农村建设中的主体作用,将农民主体地位落到实处。四是发挥政府的主导作用,促进和保障农民主体作用的实现。五是制定科学合理的新农村建设方案与规划,使农民从内心支持、参与新农村建设。六是加强对农民的教育与培训,提高农民素质,增强其参与建设的能力。七是寻找符合自身实际的新农村建设道路、切入点和方法。八是新农村建设的各项内容要同时推进,积极探索农民参加新农村建设的适当形式。九是正确处理新农村建设中试点村与非试点村的关系。     

What exactly has age got to do with it? My life in critical age studies

By sidesteps and accidents, by reading in too many genres and fields at the same time, by being irritable about certain tics of theory, by trying as a freelance independent scholar to overcome my lack of training as a gerontologist or a historian or an anthropologist, I slowly moved beyond literary criticism toward a more satisfying literary-cultural criticism and inter-disciplinarity. The article describes my move from analyzing the midlife alone to a more inclusive age studies, from naive devotee of the progress narrative to a critic of both positive aging and decline ideology, from wielding a high style to a more personal voice appropriate for a broader audience. Becoming more political has been an important aspect of this development. The arc of my age critique has been toward a greater sense of urgency in combating the forces that produce contemporary ageism.     

Well-Being and Social Capital: Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?

This paper has a double purpose: to see how well Durkheim’s [1897, Le Suicide (Paris: 1^e edition)] findings apply a century later, and to see if the beneficial effects of social capital on suicide prevention are parallel to those already found for subjective well-being (Helliwell 2003, Economic Modelling 20(2), pp. 331–360). The results show that more social capital and higher levels of trust are associated with lower national suicide rates, just as they are associated with higher levels of subjective well-being. Furthermore, there is a strong negative correlation between national average suicide rates and measures of life satisfaction. Thus social capital does appear to improve well-being, whether measured by higher average values of life satisfaction or by lower average suicide rates. There is a slight asymmetry, since the very high Scandinavian measures of subjective well-being are not matched by equally low suicide rates. To take the Swedish case as an example, this asymmetry is explained by Sweden having particularly high values of variables that have more weight in explaining life satisfaction than suicide (especially quality of government), and less beneficial values of variables that have more influence in explaining suicide rates (Swedes have low belief in God and high divorce rates), because with the latest data and models the Swedish data fit the well-being and suicide equations with only tiny errors. If the international suicide data pose a puzzle, it is more because suicide rates, and their estimated equations, differ greatly by gender, while life satisfaction and its explanations are similar for men and women.     

刑事普通救济程序功能的类型化分析

刑事普通救济程序的功能可分为正功能和负功能,其中正功能又可分为目标功能和附带功能。目标功能的实现途径可分为能全面实现所有目标功能的途径、可选择性实现目标功能的途径和仅能实现法律救济和法律统一功能的途径。负功能的弱化可通过限制上诉和简化程序来实现。我国刑事普通救济程序的完善应从目标功能本身的完善、目标功能实现途径的完善和负功能弱化途径的完善三个方面着手。     

高校价值工程的基本方略

在面向 2 1世纪的发展过程中 ,构筑价值工程是高校生存的基本前提。本文从价值工程的重要内容、基本原则、构筑渠道等方面对高校实施价值工程的基本方略作了初步的探讨     

中西人性理论与现代性平民人格培育

性善论、性恶论和人性可塑论等中国传统的人性理论因强调对德性的追求而导向圣人人格,然而圣人人格的设计既带有单一化、模式化的色彩,也让常人无法企及。经济人、社会人、自我实现人和复杂人等西方有代表性的人性理论因其理性主义特征,致使工具理性张扬而使人们迷失了自我。社会的发展进步要求哲学伦理学的研究范式转向日常生活,建构和培育具有大众化取向的现代性平民人格。     

论《青年艺术家的画像》的语言特点和成长主题

《青年艺术家的画像》是詹姆斯.乔伊斯第一部公开发表的小说,也是西方文学史上第一部用意识流手法创作的成长小说。文章着重从语言和成长视角来探索乔伊斯的《青年艺术家的画像》中主人公史蒂芬逐渐成长为艺术家的过程,集中讨论史蒂芬语言的发展过程以及语言是如何不断修正他对世界的感知方式的。