Gender differences in willingness to compete: The role of public observability

A recent literature emphasizes that gender differences in the labor market may in part be driven by a gender gap in willingness to compete. However, whereas experiments in this literature typically investigate willingness to compete in private environments, real world competitions often have a more public nature, which introduces potential social image concerns. If such image concerns are important, and men and women differ in the degree to which they want to be seen as competitive, making tournament entry decisions publicly observable may further exacerbate the gender gap. We test this prediction using a laboratory experiment (N = 784) that varies the degree to which the decision to compete, and its outcome, is publicly observable. We find that public observability does not alter the magnitude of the gender gap in willingness to compete in an economically or statistically significant way.     

‘Public toilets for a diverse neighborhood’: Spatial purification practices in community development discourse

This paper explores the dialectic of place and community identity in Mount Pleasant, a multi–ethnic and multi–class U.S. neighborhood where definitions of place are hotly contested among its residents. In a grant proposal for public toilets, Mount Pleasant writers use linguistic strategies such as presupposition, deixis, and contrast, coupled with discursive themes of filth and geography, to construct a core of the Mount Pleasant community. The writers place themselves and people who share their values in that core, and immigrants at the margins. These strategies serve as a discursive type of spatial purification practice (cf. Sibley 1988) through which the grantwriters set up a moral and spatial order where they and other core community members are deemed to use space ‘appropriately’, and thus inhabit positive moral positions, while immigrant community members’ imputed ‘inappropriate’ use of space is used to construct negative moral positions for them.     

Linguists and other animals

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

计算机与学术写作(英文)

深大外语系把若干计算机软件应用于英语专业本科学生的写作课教材系列。这不仅有助于学生自修写作技巧,且能为教师节省大量时间,使教师有可能对学生作更多的个别辅导。同时,学生在上写作课的过程中还能掌握一种使用计算机的实际技能。近十年来,中国的飞速发展是史无前例的。西方的技术发展史对中国虽然有启迪作用,但其实际要求与中国相去甚远。在这个意义上,深大的尝试对全中国均具有示范意义。     

美国英语与美国人的时间观

语言作为文化的一部分，是文化的重要表达形式，透过一个民族的语言层面，可以窥见这个民族的文化形态。本文试图通过分析美国英语与时间有关的用语，来探讨美国人支配、利用时间的方式，以及时间这一无声的语言在美国文化中所蕴含的意义。     

外向/内向型性格对外语学习的影响

外向/内向型性格与外语学习有相关关系,通过实验证明外向型性格能对外语学习产生积极影响。     

清代蒙古族学堂教育及其语言教育

从 2 0世纪初开始 ,清朝教育制度发生了极大变化 ,出现了近代教育的萌芽。在这样一个大环境下 ,蒙古族近代学校教育的艰苦实践和探索也走上新的道路。蒙古族学堂教育是新教育思想的产物 ,虽然同旧的官学有一定的继承关系 ,但它打破封闭的传统教育 ,提倡开放的近代教育 ,由此教育种类和等级开始多样化、多层次化 ,出现普通教育、留学生教育和内地求学等形式。在学堂教育中 ,各种语言教育模式是同时并存的 ,这些模式经过分化和重组后 ,出现向汉语和蒙古语两个单语教育模式或蒙古语汉语双语教育模式集中的倾向。     

凉山彝语ABAB式形容词研究

凉山彝语中有一种特殊的ABAB式四音格形容词 ,以往的教科书和字词典都忽视不收 ,在日常生活中其使用频率较高。在语义表达上与现代汉语ABAB式形容词较为相似 ,但不完全相同。其产生有两种基本形式。在语音结构和语用上不同于描摹词 ,在句中充当状语和定语等句子成分。     

从量词看苗汉两种语言的关系

“名物量词”在各种语言中的产生、发展规律不尽一致。因此 ,透过“名物量词”探查两种语言的源流 ,不失为一条可行的途径。从苗汉两种语言量词的统计材料中 ,可以看到两种语言量词的兴起和发展过程。湘西苗语的量词与同时代汉语的量词相比 ,在数量上没有汉语的多 ,在范围上没有汉语的宽。各个历史时期 ,湘西苗语都从汉语借用一批词语 ,相应的汉语量词就跟着进入苗语了。从量词的起源和发展来看 ,苗语深受汉语的影响 ,但是很难说苗汉两种语言出于同一母语。     

试论韩非文章的语言特点

韩非是先秦诸子散文中四大杰出的代表人物之一 ,他继荀子之后 ,发展完善了我国散文文体 ,并以犀利峻峭的文风把论辩类文章推向极致。文学的第一要素是语言 ,韩非在语言运用上有准确性、生动性、形象性和音乐性等突出的特点。