Living up to Policy Coherence for Development? The OECD's disciplines on tied aid financing

Tied aid credits are a way for donors to look to boost the international competitiveness of domestic enterprises while simultaneously contributing to development in recipient countries. Though regulated through the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits, tied aid credits claim a place among the instruments of development policy and are eligible as Official Development Assistance (ODA). This raises the question of whether the international regulatory framework is equipped to safeguard the presumed development goals. This article examines the internal coherence of the tied aid disciplines of the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) with the development principles coined by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Thereby, the extent to which the OECD lives up to its own promise of Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) is scrutinized.     

英语语篇教学探讨

结合英语课文教学的现状,分析了课文与语篇的关系,指出衔接和连贯是语篇教学的两个重点内容,最后文章提供了一些具体的操作方法。     

概念整合对语篇外部衔接的阐释

概念整合理论是当今认知语言学家研究的焦点之一,众多学者都运用此理论从不同的角度对语篇进行了分析,本文试图以概念整合理论的核心内容即空间映射论为指导,以三种不同类型的空间映射(投射映射、语用函数映射、图示映射)为切入点来分析语篇的外部衔接。     

Coherent Frequentism: A Decision Theory Based on Confidence Sets

By representing fair betting odds according to one or more pairs of confidence set estimators, dual parameter distributions called confidence posteriors secure the coherence of actions without any prior distribution. This theory reduces to the maximization of expected utility when the pair of posteriors is induced by an exact or approximate confidence set estimator or when a reduction rule is applied to the pair. Unlike the p-value, the confidence posterior probability of an interval hypothesis is suitable as an estimator of the indicator of hypothesis truth since it converges to 1 if the hypothesis is true or to 0 otherwise.     

Information search,coherence effects,and their interplay in legal decision making

Legal judgments require one to make sense of a complex set of typically contradicting pieces of information that can easily be interpreted in a biased manner. This systematic judgment bias can be caused by biased information search (i.e., confirmatory search) as well as biased information processing (i.e., coherence effects) in which the interpretation of information is changed to fit the emerging favored option. In four studies, we investigate the complex interplay between both kinds of influences. Participants completed three legal cases in which they could freely search for information. We manipulated between subjects whether systematic search was possible or not and measured the assessment of each selected piece of information. In line with previous studies, we observe strong coherence effects in each study, in that the evidence interpretation strongly depended on the current tendency towards acquittal or conviction. In contrast to our expectation, however, people searched for information that was contrary to their current belief in the given case (i.e., disconfirmatory information search). We also observed a trend towards an interaction between both factors, in that coherence effects were slightly stronger for neutral and pro-guilty evidence when systematic information search was possible. Our results underline an unconscious striving for coherence when making complex judgments that is not easily corrected.     

语篇分析与英语阅读课教学

本文提出以系统功能语法为依据,运用主位推进、衔接连贯和语境理论等语篇分析方法改进阅读课,从而使其不再是词、句、语法结构分析和翻译,而是提高学生的理解能力和阅读速度.     

论语篇的隐性连贯

连贯是语篇语言学研究的重要内容,它可分为由衔接手段支持的显性连贯和由非语言因素支持的隐性连贯。隐性连贯与不连贯的区别在于前者在语篇内存在统一的语域而后者没有。隐性连贯的存在有其社会和认知的基础,它有三个特点：它是隐性的,外指的和认知的。     

文学翻译中陌生化的连贯重构与文学性的传承

文学作品的诗学价值是由其文学性来决定的。文学性是文学翻译研究的对象,而文学性是由语言形式陌生化的策略性选择来实现的。文学翻译中文学性的传承就意味着对陌生化语言形式的传承。陌生化语言形式的识别与连贯重构是原作文学性传承和诗学价值再现的必由之路。     

The Danish psychosocial work environment and symptoms of stress: The main,mediating and moderating role of sense of coherence

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the main, mediating and moderating role of sense of coherence (SOC) on stress symptoms and on the association between perceived psychosocial work environment and stress symptoms. The sample includes 2053 Danish employees from 52 workplaces. Hierarchical regression models were applied for each measure of stress. The results strongly supported the presence of a main effect for SOC. People with high levels of SOC experienced fewer stress symptoms. A mediating effect of SOC was also supported. Thus, SOC in part explained the association between work environment and stress symptoms. In addition, some support for a moderating effect of SOC was found, suggesting that people with higher SOC coped more efficiently with work environmental strain that people with lower SOC. Taken together the regression models explained 11–32% of the variance in stress symptoms. The results suggest that measures of individual factors such as SOC should be included in analyses of the effects of work environmental factors on stress and well-being.     

英语写作语句衔接分析

本文对来自三个年段的 60篇相同题目的议论文进行了语句衔接分析。分析结果表明 ,我国学生在英语写作中存在着较严重的语句间的衔接问题。这些问题严重影响了思想内容的连贯表达。对此 ,作者对解决英语写作中的衔接问题提出了相应的对策