外语能力与科学研究的密切联系——周立伟院士访谈

近日对我国著名电子光学和光电子成像专家周立伟院士进行了访谈。访谈中，周院士首先分享了自己学习英语和俄语的经历，强调了自主学习能力的重要性；其次，周院士详细论述了外语教学，尤其是英语教学的必要性，指出英语能力与科学研究紧密相关，英语教学不可或缺；之后周院士分析了研究生在英语学习和科学研究方面存在的问题，并讨论了大学中开设人文课程的迫切性；最后，周院士对上理工师生提出了建议与期望。     

Incumbent capability enhancement in response to radical innovations

Schumpeterian market disequilibrium marked by entrepreneurial entry and incumbent exit has long held an important place in management literature. The extant literature has overwhelmingly championed the newcomer, despite incumbents' obvious advantages in resources, experience and market knowledge. The current research provides evidence for the effectiveness of the incumbent's strategy of capability enhancement (along an established technological trajectory) while responding to radical technological innovations. We develop a cognitive process model that integrates managerial cognition with capability development and deployment views, depicting the dynamics of the incumbent's capability enhancement process. We analyze the cognitive drivers of organizational actions in all stages (rigidity, triggering event, and capability renewal) and elucidate the role of top management cognition in the processes of detecting and correcting errors in a strategic course of action. We ground our model in the case of a cork-stopper industry veteran's decline as corks ceded ground to screw tops and other stoppers in the wine industry. How a major company fought back in response to the emergence of these, in the industry context, radical technological innovations, provides the basis for our narrative. The proposed theoretical model contributes to literature on technology management (with regard to incumbent strategies in response to radical innovation threats) as well as the role of cognition in strategy (providing an explanation of the cognitive underpinnings of capability development).     

“I feel and think,therefore I am”: An Affect-Cognitive Theory of management decisions

I propose an Affect-Cognitive Theory to comprehensively understand how decisions occur in organizations. To this aim, I first review the assumptions of sensemaking and decision-making streams of research, especially the influence of bounded rationality, affective states and their relationships with cognition; then, I integrate them on the common basis of socially situated cognition. This new theory emphasizes the role of affective states in determining/being determined by cognition and its errors, pointing out decision makers’ affect as the result of multi-level adaptations to the physical and social environment. Management decisions are path dependent but not immutable; they, indeed, bank on the predominant feeling resulting from the modifying interactions and regulations of decision makers with their physical and social environment. Here, decision makers are proposed as “emotional cognizers” overcoming the thinking-feeling dichotomy that has often featured in the study of management decisions. This theory is beneficial for behavioral strategy, offering the needed assumptions to intertwine human cognition, emotions, and social behavior.     

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。