Linguists and other animals

Book reviewed in this article:
Joan Dunayer, Animal Equality: Language and Liberation     

对市场经济条件下教育产业的审视

由于对教育产业的内涵与外延缺乏清晰的界定,使得我们在市场经济条件下对其产生了诸多认识上的误区和适用上的混乱。教育产业的规定性是由其产品——教育服务的性质和生产过程的特征决定的,市场经济只不过是教育产业由幼稚走向成熟和强盛的一种有效的经济运行方式,二者之间是过程和手段、内容和形式的关系。     

新形势下北仑工业经济再上新台阶试探

加入ＷＴＯ，北仑工业经济要上新台阶，就必须敏锐地把握经济发展趋势，以培育支柱工业和临港工业，招商引资和技术改造，拓展国际、国内市场，深化企业改革为重点．     

金融环境论略

金融业的存在和发展与金融环境之间存在一个极为密切的关系 ,金融环境是金融活动发生和发展的支持系统和资源。金融环境可以被分为内在的外部性和外在的外部性这两个层次。金融环境既包括自然、经济、法律、社会政治等诸多方面 ,同时也包括金融结构、信用关系和金融监管等要素。从金融业的经营状态来判断金融环境的好坏及其变化 ,这有利于治理和保护金融环境 ,营造良好的金融环境。当前需要从法律、市场、信用和宏观经济几个方面改良金融环境。     

对分部信息披露制度的认识

为了规范分部信息的披露行为 ,各国会计准则制定机构、证券管理部门以及有关国际组织 ,纷纷发布准则或制度 ,对分部信息披露的要求作出规定 ,形成了各自的分部信息披露制度。本文在借鉴了各国分部信息披露制度的基础上 ,指出了我国分部信息披露制度存在的问题 ,并提出了一些改进建议。     

政府化行为·社会化组织·市场化运作--德国国防工业管理与军备采购模式的分析

本文在概述二战后德国国防战略方针的转变和介绍其国防工业管理与军备采购的现行机构与政策之同时 ,重点阐述并归纳总结出德国国防工业管理与军备采购模式科学与有效运行的三项内因 :政府化行为、社会化组织、市场化运作。     

高校青年学生网络思想与法制教育的几点思考

随着因特网的发展 ,网络上信息的内容日益呈现出其复杂性 ,世界观并没有完全形成的青年学生 ,很容易受到网上信息内容所隐含的意识形态的影响。正确辨别网络信息 ,正确对待网上游戏 ,抵制恶意信息流传 ,增强青年学生的自我控制能力 ,加强对他们的思想与法制教育 ,是高校实现人才培养目标的重要保证。     

Implied Preference for Seismic Design Level and Earthquake Insurance

Seismic risk can be reduced by implementing newly developed seismic provisions in design codes. Furthermore, financial protection or enhanced utility and happiness for stakeholders could be gained through the purchase of earthquake insurance. If this is not so, there would be no market for such insurance. However, perceived benefit associated with insurance is not universally shared by stakeholders partly due to their diverse risk attitudes. This study investigates the implied seismic design preference with insurance options for decisionmakers of bounded rationality whose preferences could be adequately represented by the cumulative prospect theory (CPT). The investigation is focused on assessing the sensitivity of the implied seismic design preference with insurance options to model parameters of the CPT and to fair and unfair insurance arrangements. Numerical results suggest that human cognitive limitation and risk perception can affect the implied seismic design preference by the CPT significantly. The mandatory purchase of fair insurance will lead the implied seismic design preference to the optimum design level that is dictated by the minimum expected lifecycle cost rule. Unfair insurance decreases the expected gain as well as its associated variability, which is preferred by risk-averse decisionmakers. The obtained results of the implied preference for the combination of the seismic design level and insurance option suggest that property owners, financial institutions, and municipalities can take advantage of affordable insurance to establish successful seismic risk management strategies.     

论英语语言课程设计中的需求分析

界定需求要从目标和目的两个方面进行,这两个方面是我们发展测试、材料、教学活动、评价策略的基础。因此需求分析是语言课程建设不可分割的一部分。本文重点介绍了英语语言课程设计中需求分析的方法及步骤。目的在于强调需求分析的重要性,以及需求分析对于教师改进教学方法、提高教学效果、提高学生学习的主动性和积极性的重要意义。     

Ethnic patterns in the phonetics of Montreal English

Most North American cities no longer display strong ethnic differentiation of speech within the European‐origin population. This is not true in the English‐speaking community of Montreal, Canada, where English is a minority language. Differences in the phonetic realization of vowels by Montrealers of Irish, Italian, and Jewish ethnic origin are investigated by means of acoustic analysis. A statistical analysis of ethnic differences in formant frequencies shows that ethnicity has a significant effect on several variables, particularly the phonetic position of /u:/ and /ou/ and the allophonic conditioning of /æ/ and /au/ before nasal consonants. The unusual tenacity of ethnophonetic variation in Montreal English is explained in light of the minority status of English, and the social and residential segregation of ethnic groups in distinct neighborhoods, which limits their exposure to speakers of Standard Canadian English who might otherwise serve as models for assimilation.