中美英语社论中词块的对比修辞研究

本文对比研究了中美英语社论体裁的词块使用情况。为此目的,本文自建了一个包括两份报纸的英语社论,共246,771词。研究结果表明,两类语料在词块使用上存在显著差异。研究的意义在于,为跨文化交际和英语教学提供启示。     

基于语料库的中美英语社论的模糊限制语使用情况调查

本文通过自建语料库，对比研究了中美英语社论体裁中的模糊限制语的使用情况。结果表明中美英语的模糊限制语存在跨文化的差异性，同时也存在跨体裁的差异性。     

中美英语社论的分析性语言对比研究

本文对比研究了中美英文报纸的社论语体的分析性词汇特征。为此,本研究建立了一个共计246,771词的语料库。研究结果显示,中国英语报纸社论和美国英语报纸社论的分析性用词存在显著差异。研究的意义在于为中国英语研究提供数据支撑,并同时为跨文化交际和中国的英语教学提供参考。     

中国英语专业学生话轮保持中话语标记语的语用功能研究

本文旨在研究中国英英语专业学生话轮保持过程中所使用的话语标记语及其功能.研究结果表明:中国英语专业学生在话轮保持中经常使用九类话语标记语,其中uh及其类似标记语的使用频率远远高于其他话语标记语.在功能上,话轮保持中的话语标记语主要被用作停顿填充标记语或延缓标记语.     

《中国日报》和《纽约时报》中国航天大事新闻报道元话语比较研究

元话语是指用于组织话语、表达作者对话语的观点、涉及读者反映的一种语言手段.本文通过对《中国日报》和《纽约时报》中国航天大事新闻报道中的元话语统计分析,揭示了新闻报道语篇中元话语的运用机制、两份报纸元话语运用的差异,同时也窥见了两份报纸报道相同事件体现的不同态度.     

道歉语的语用迁移对中美经贸发展的价值研究

随着世界一体化和语言文化研究的发展,跨文化交际能力的培养成为当今国际社会的最终目标。本文主要通过研究中国大学英语学习者道歉语的语用迁移规律,探讨其所反映的中美两国的文化差异对于中美贸易往来的影响,从而为增进中美两国的文化交流和经济贸易往来提供更多的机会。     

中美英语社论中强势词的对比研究

本文对比研究了中美英语社论中强势词的使用情况。为此,本研究建立了一个总字数为246,771个单词的社论语料库,该语料库包含两个子语料库即China Daily社论语料和New York Times语料。本研究采用Antconc语料检索软件对英国国家语料(BNC)中使用最多的20个强势词进行了统计分析。研究结果表明中国英语使用者的英语具有其自身的语言特征。这些特征的原因主要在于文化差异性。本研究为跨文化交际和中国英语变体研究提供启示。     

中美英语社论作者立场表达方式对比研究

本研究基于中美英语报纸社论体裁语料库,对比分析中国英语使用者与英语本族语者的立场表达方式。研究发现,中国英语使用者与英语本族语者在使用英语表达作者立场时在人称代词、情态动词和半情态动词和立场副词三个方面存在显著差异。     

经济学类论文英语摘要的对比研究

本文采取体裁分析的方法,对比研究了经济学类英语论文摘要的宏观结构。为此目的,本文建立了一个80篇英语摘要的语料库,摘要来自于中美两本权威经济学期刊《经济学季刊》(China Economic Quarterly)和Quarterly Journal of Economics。研究结果表明,两本期刊的英语摘要的宏观结构存在显著差异。本研究的意义在于在一定程度上揭示了英语学术语篇宏观结构的跨文化差异性,并为英语非母语的论文撰写者提供参考。     

话语标记语视阙下对外汉语口语教材编写新思维

针对主流对外汉语口语教材中的话语标记语问题,提出利用汉英双语注释为留学生提供可理解的语言输入的新思维,旨在帮助留学生掌握地道汉语口语。文章对话语标记语双语注释的体例和应当包括的内容作了详细的讨论,并指出教材编写者的话语标记语意识、英语水平和翻译能力以及教师的教材二次加工能力是话语标记语教学成败的关键所在。     

Narrative construction of expatriate experience and career cycle: discursive patterns in Finnish stories of international

Expatriate experience is not only a disconnected occasion for cross-cultural anxiety and adjustment but also an important event in the process of self-development and learning. Following this view and arguing for a discursive approach, the paper focuses on ways in which expatriates themselves tell and interpret their development and movement across expatriate career cycle. Meaning systems connecting expatriate job with previous and following work experiences in career stories of Finnish engineers and managers were identified using a combination of narrative and discourse analysis. No evidence was found of an autonomous expatriate discourse but, in contrast, expatriate career cycle was narrated using available organizational repertoires of development and career. Describing and discussing the meaning-making properties of three identified discourses - bureaucratic, occupational and enterprising - the paper emphasizes the organizational environment of expatriate experience while acknowledging the limits of these contemporary career vocabularies in addressing individual learning and change in cross-cultural settings.     

Modality analysis: a semantic grammar for imputations of intentionality in texts

Modality analysis is a text analysis methodology that affords comparisons of how people from distinct cultural contexts differ in their accounts of why one or more of their numbers find specific activities possible, impossible, inevitable, or contingent. The technique is built around a two-part semantic grammar, the application of which involves the identification of modal clauses in texts, the classification of these clauses according to their modal forms, and the identification of rationales associated with the clauses’ modalities. We show that with sufficient training the method affords high interrater agreement. After providing a few tips on data-collection strategies, results are presented from a modality analysis of editorials sampled from the Arab newspaper, Al Riyadh, and the Hindi newspaper, Hindustan. The analysis illustrates how modal expressions can be used in locating well-known (e.g., Islamic and Hindu) cultural characteristics from among the vast quantities of discourse that societies continuously generate.     

提高跨文化交际能力策略的研究

跨文化交际是指不同文化背景的人们之间的交际,实际上是语言的交融及文化整合过程。而不同文化的人在跨文化交际与合作中常常会产生文化冲突,这大多是由于文化之间的差异所造成。东西方文化的差异导致了跨文化交际的障碍,本文阐述了如何克服跨文化障碍以及提高跨文化交际能力的策略。     

The mediating effects of cross-cultural dynamic competencies on the relationship between multicultural personality and cross-cultural adjustment

Although the mediating effects of dynamic competencies on the relationship between personality traits and cross-cultural adjustment have been conceptually judged by several scholars, none of them have been empirically validated. Consequently, this study examines the mediating effects of dynamic cross-cultural competencies including general self-efficacy, relational skills and non-ethnocentrism on the relationship between multicultural personality traits and cross-cultural adjustment. The empirical results provide some support that relational skills and general self-efficacy mediate the relationship between multicultural personality traits and certain facets of cross-cultural adjustment. Relational skills completely mediate either the relationship between social initiative and interaction adjustment or that of cultural empathy and interaction adjustment. General self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between emotional stability and psychological adjustment. However, the results suggest that multicultural personality traits have direct effects on cross-cultural adjustment. The practical implications of these findings for dynamic and stable cross-cultural competencies are discussed.     

Charter Schools and Urban Regimes in Neoliberal Context: Making Workers and New Spaces in Metropolitan Atlanta

In this article, we demonstrate the neoliberalism and multiscalar economic perspective of the charter school movement in Atlanta, Georgia, through examination of news articles and editorials about charter schools in the Atlanta Journal‐Constitution from 1998 to 2004. We posit three interrelated dynamics which explain the editorial board’s interest in charter schools as part of a broader urban regime agenda. First, charter schools represent part of a neoliberal shift in education that parallels shifts in urban governance, emphasizing flexibility, public–private partnerships, and ‘market’‐oriented consumer choice and accountability. Second, the newspaper is issuing a challenge to educational structures, to adopt more neoliberal policies and shed a bureaucratic, liberal governance framework. Finally, we find critical evidence that the charter school movement draws on a multiscalar discourse which simultaneously references responsiveness to local, neighborhood needs, and at the same time highlights the economic imperatives of a global, competitive city to differentially skill students/workers in order to capture mobile and fractured (global) capital.     

Preserving a Professional Institution: Emotion in Discursive Institutional Work

We studied the discursive institutional work written by pharmacy leaders as part of a larger institutional project to preserve the institution of pharmacy. Our analysis of monthly editorials printed in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association from 1960 to 2003 shows how different discrete emotions were systematically incorporated in specific rhetorical argument structures over the course of an institutional project. In contrast to previous research, we show how discursive institutional work that is directed to members of the same specific social group (e.g., a profession) can vary over time in response to significant events and changes in practices of the target audience. Our longitudinal study shows that the relative frequency of argument types, the incorporation of emotion, and the content of rhetorical argumentation changed over time. We contribute to theory about the role of emotions in discursive institutional work by unpacking the role of discrete emotions and showing how such discourse evolves over time in concert with field conditions.