Revisiting the model of creative destruction: St. Jacobs,Ontario, a decade later

Ten years ago, the model of creative destruction was developed to predict the fate of communities that base their development on the commodification of rural heritage (Mitchell, C.J.A., 1998. Entrepreneurialism, commodification and creative destruction: a model of post-modern community development. Journal of Rural Studies 14, 273–286). Its application to the village of St. Jacobs, Canada, demonstrated that entrepreneurial investment had fostered the creation of a setting for aestheticized consumption. In this paper we demonstrate that creative destruction has continued to unfold in the village over the course of the past decade. The evolutionary path taken is assessed in light of current literature on rural space. It is concluded that to fully understand the transformative process, one must integrate the demands of myriad sub-cultures, whose social relations, ideologies and actions will contribute to the development of a contested landscape of consumption. This finding necessitates that modifications be made to the model and its various stages. The most significant is recognition that the “heritage-scape” is an interim state of landscape change; one that displaces the productivist landscape of the industrial period, and precedes the creation of the “neo-productivist” leisure-scape of post-industrialism. Whether or not such a “final” state is achieved is dictated by the power struggle that inevitably arises amongst sub-cultures engaged in the transformation of rural space.     

关于词类多功能性的思考

从现代汉语词类多功能现象出发,以跨语言比较和认知语言学为视角对词类多功能性的研究表明,范畴是语言描写的需要,其具有相对性,体现在语音、语义、词汇和语法各个方面;在词类问题上其表现为,词类多功能性是一种跨语言普遍现象,其本质是范畴的灵活性。因此,能否对词类多功能性作出合理的解释,既是检验词类划分标准合适与否的关键,又是普通语言学研究的需要,而这些问题的解决必须以高度重视语言和言语的关系为前提。