Humor and satire in politics: Introducing cultural sociology to the field

The landscape of political humor and satire is changing rapidly, and it is becoming an increasingly relevant aspect of our culture. Although scholars have been actively trying to capture this change, majority of the existing frameworks for understanding humor and satire in politics still reduce these phenomena to mere genres or rhetoric tools. In addition, they provide insufficient accounts concerning the reception of humor and satire, and neglect to interpret and explain what they communicate. In the article, a general understanding of humor and satire outside of a political context, followed by an overview of studies discussing humor and satire in politics through their applications in social movements, as leadership tools, and through their manifestations in mass media has been presented. Lastly, a cultural sociological perspective to the field has been introduced. It has been argued that approaching humor and satire in politics through a structural hermeneutic method of the Strong Program will enable us to recognize and treat political humor and satire as autonomous and complex cultural systems which carry an internal power to move people.     

含泪的幽默--浅论陶渊明诗文中的幽默感

陶渊明是魏晋风度的代表，他的特立独行本身就是对那个特定时代社会的嘲弄和挑战。他的作品坦诚而冷静地记录了他内心的波澜，最大限度地展示了自己的内心矛盾，表现出一种诙谐幽默、戏谑调侃的风格。陶渊明的幽默是柔和的，是含着泪的幽默。     

论《世说新语》的笑话因素

《世说新语》所展示的魏晋人物 ,以其机智的词锋、超越的心态和怪诞的行为 ,为此书融入诸多笑话因素 ,给人以轻松愉悦的阅读感受。其笑话类型包括 :诉诸语言的幽默型和见诸行动的滑稽型两类。纂集体、类型化、文人性和写实性是《世说新语》作为笑话的文体特征     

国内外学前儿童计算思维研究述评

人工智能时代,计算思维已成为21世纪个体的必备素养。近年来,人们开始逐渐意识到从儿童早期培养计算思维的重要性,从小开始培养儿童的计算思维已成为世界各国的共识。然而,当前尚未对学前儿童计算思维的研究进行全面系统地梳理。因此,本研究结合文献计量法与内容分析法,对来自国内外核心数据库中的30篇实证研究进行了系统梳理,以此全面地了解国内外学前儿童计算思维培养的研究现状与发展趋势。与此同时,立足现状提出了对策与展望。     

On the difficulty of making social choices

The difficulty of making social choices seems to take on two forms: one that is related to both preferences and the method used in aggregating them and one which is related to the preferences only. In the former type the difficulty has to do with the discrepancies of outcomes resulting from various preference aggregation methods and the computation of winners in elections. Some approaches and results which take their motivation from the computability theory are discussed. The latter institution-free type of difficulty pertains to solution theory of the voting games. We discuss the relationships between various solution concepts, e.g. uncovered set, Banks set, Copeland winners. Finally rough sets are utilized in an effort to measure the difficulty of making social choices.     

Adaptive Build-up and Breakdown of Trust: An Agent Based Computational Approach

This article employs Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) to investigate whether, and under what conditions, trust is viable in markets. The emergence and breakdown of trust is modeled in a context of multiple buyers and suppliers. Agents develop trust in a partner as a function of observed loyalty. They select partners on the basis of their trust in the partner and potential profit, with adaptive weights. On the basis of realized profits, they adapt the weight they attach to trust relative to profitability, and their own trustworthiness, modeled as a threshold of defection. Trust and loyalty turn out to be viable under fairly general conditions.     

Minimal Tetrahedralizations of a Class of Polyhedra

Given a simple polyhedron P in the three dimensional Euclidean space, different tetrahedralizations of P may contain different numbers of tetrahedra. The minimal tetrahedralization is a tetrahedralization with the minimum number of tetrahedra. In this paper, we present some properties of the graph of polyhedra. Then we identify a class of polyhedra and show that this kind of polyhedra can be minimally tetrahedralized in O(n ²) time.     

浅谈班主任的“说话”艺术

在班主任的教育教学过程中，离不开和学生进行沟通交流。师生双方为了完成共同的教育任务进行交往，从而建立良好的师生关系，在很大程度上源于班主任的“说话’’艺术。从这个视角出发．结合工作经验，探讨班主任与学生交流，要注意“入情入理”、“恰到好处”、“谈吐幽默”等讲话方式，增强交流效果。     

Diagnostics in elliptical regression models with stochastic restrictions applied to econometrics

We propose an influence diagnostic methodology for linear regression models with stochastic restrictions and errors following elliptically contoured distributions. We study how a perturbation may impact on the mixed estimation procedure of parameters in the model. Normal curvatures and slopes for assessing influence under usual schemes are derived, including perturbations of case-weight, response variable, and explanatory variable. Simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed methodology. An example with real-world economy data is presented as an illustration.     

突降格及其语序意义的再现

突降法是英汉两种语言中都十分常见的修辞格。它的最大特点是不可前后颠倒的语序。因此,突降辞格的翻译不能套用一般的语序翻译原则。否则,辞格修辞效果就不可能再现出来。