Oscar Wilde is mainly famous for being the representative figure of Aesthetic Movement and the steadfast advocate of"art for art's sake". Although being influenced by the traditional dichotomy of women, ...Oscar Wilde is mainly famous for being the representative figure of Aesthetic Movement and the steadfast advocate of"art for art's sake". Although being influenced by the traditional dichotomy of women, Wilde does try to add some personal elements during this process. In one of his social comedies, An Ideal Husband, this wildean characteristic is more obvious. This essay attempts to reveal those hidden images which are employed by Wilde to represent his female characters and tries to show the Wilde's improvement of the traditional dichotomy.展开更多
This survey sets students in a Chongqing university as examples and on this basis, combining the author＇s perennial professional career planning education experience to analyze and study university students＇ profess...This survey sets students in a Chongqing university as examples and on this basis, combining the author＇s perennial professional career planning education experience to analyze and study university students＇ professional career planning status quo in recent years and the deep-seated reasons for the difficulties of career planning, employment and adaptability to explore more effective, more proactive methods for university students＇ career planning education tasks.展开更多
The volume under review takes niche as an overarching framework within which a variety of discoveries on practices by non-native English speakers in the international academic communication are presented and discussed...The volume under review takes niche as an overarching framework within which a variety of discoveries on practices by non-native English speakers in the international academic communication are presented and discussed. Focusing on problems and challenges brought along with the subtle influences exerted by English as the academic lingua franca in international communication, it offers theoretical insights and methodological implications for academic discourse research in general and academic practice using English as an Additional Language （henceforth EAL） in particular. It revisits the concept of ＂research niche＂ with its specific significance in relation to practices of EAL researchers in the international academic community. The book consists of 14 chapters which are neatly arranged into four sections based on different participants and/or genres in international academic communi- cation as foci of the research, i.e., expert writers （Part I）, novice writers and readers （Part II）, conference participants （Part III）, and non-research academic genres （Part IV）. In the opening chapter, adoption of the volume＇ s unifying theme is justified with a relook at the notion of ＂academic niches＂ and a thorough analysis of interculturality, cross-culturality and aculturality proposed as key terms in examining cross-cultural academic discourse practices. In the introductory remarks on academic niches, it is stated that the key notion which captures the very essence of academic research deserves a redefinition in the changing landscape of international academia where niches are increasingly occupied by scholars working with EAL. The idea is inspired by the well-known CARS model proposed by Swales （1990） in a stepwise description of the rhetorical movements in the introduction of a research paper.展开更多
The paper argues that a change of the name from multiculturalism to transculturalism will not work magic if the thinking paradigm that dictates trans- culturalism is still the same mindset that dictates multiculturali...The paper argues that a change of the name from multiculturalism to transculturalism will not work magic if the thinking paradigm that dictates trans- culturalism is still the same mindset that dictates multiculturalism, which is basi- cally swayed by postcolonialism, a victim mentality, or what Fanon termed as a colonized mind that conceives the world ahistorically in terms of a false binarism of the West and the non-West, ignoring entirely the complexities of power relations in intercultural and intracultural interactions, and disregarding the simple facts that, as the West is not a colonizing whole, the non-West is not a colonized monolith and that, as there are diversities between cultures in the West and the non-West, there are differences within the Western cultures, within the non-Western cultures, and within each culture. I discuss the failures of multiculturalism, critique the indiscriminate application of postcolonialism, and look into the problems and risks of conceiving power relations in cross-cultural interactions along the postcolonialist binary line, which has reduced the diversified world into the West and the non-West. The transculturalist hypothesis of World Englishes is used as a case in point. My conclusion is that transculturalism can only be meaningful if it adopts ＂a disposition of openness, liberated from the colonized mind or the postcolonialist identity politics.展开更多
This article reviews a unique contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of absence of speech with inspirations for researchers interested in political and media studies. In her recent book Silence ...This article reviews a unique contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of absence of speech with inspirations for researchers interested in political and media studies. In her recent book Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse, Dr. Melani Schrrter addresses a largely underexplored aspect of political discourse and offers a systematic presentation of theoretical underpinnings and empirical application of the analytical framework proposed for examining discursive absences and communicative value of silence. With three case studies in the German political context, the author demonstrates the possibility and potential in using a combined method to analyze contextualized absence of speech, drawing insights from discourse analysis and pragmatic approaches. This book also deals critically with such significant issues as ritual and political action, thus offering valuable insights to the general theoretical debate on political discourse.展开更多
1 IntroductionThe great paradox of our times lies in the fact that people are becoming more and more intransigent about their cultural identity while the crossing of cultural frontiers is a daily practice. How could w...1 IntroductionThe great paradox of our times lies in the fact that people are becoming more and more intransigent about their cultural identity while the crossing of cultural frontiers is a daily practice. How could we reconcile the necessity of going beyond one＇s own limited horizon with the urge for keeping up one＇s own identity？ People have always been living in separate communities ever since there was human society and the merge of small communities into larger ones seems to be a constant process in history. While nation-building, the most significant merge so far, has been frequently realized in iron and blood all over the world, we would earnestly hope that the emerging of the contemporary world community could be effectuated in a more rational and peaceful way.展开更多
The transcultural communication that characterizes our times needs to be carried out in a few commonly shared languages and this requirement has sharpened the awareness about uneven language status. While defenders of...The transcultural communication that characterizes our times needs to be carried out in a few commonly shared languages and this requirement has sharpened the awareness about uneven language status. While defenders of minor languages frequently make use of such concepts as ecosystem, human rights, capital, power, imperialism, etc. To express alarm at the spread of the English language in the present world, researchers tend to forget that these concepts applied to languages are only metaphors which, taken at their face value, would conceal the non- exclusive nature of language as a communicative instrument. A question is raised as to whether we should go beyond an essentially nationalist perception of language inherited from the nineteenth century.展开更多
文摘Oscar Wilde is mainly famous for being the representative figure of Aesthetic Movement and the steadfast advocate of"art for art's sake". Although being influenced by the traditional dichotomy of women, Wilde does try to add some personal elements during this process. In one of his social comedies, An Ideal Husband, this wildean characteristic is more obvious. This essay attempts to reveal those hidden images which are employed by Wilde to represent his female characters and tries to show the Wilde's improvement of the traditional dichotomy.
文摘This survey sets students in a Chongqing university as examples and on this basis, combining the author＇s perennial professional career planning education experience to analyze and study university students＇ professional career planning status quo in recent years and the deep-seated reasons for the difficulties of career planning, employment and adaptability to explore more effective, more proactive methods for university students＇ career planning education tasks.
文摘The volume under review takes niche as an overarching framework within which a variety of discoveries on practices by non-native English speakers in the international academic communication are presented and discussed. Focusing on problems and challenges brought along with the subtle influences exerted by English as the academic lingua franca in international communication, it offers theoretical insights and methodological implications for academic discourse research in general and academic practice using English as an Additional Language （henceforth EAL） in particular. It revisits the concept of ＂research niche＂ with its specific significance in relation to practices of EAL researchers in the international academic community. The book consists of 14 chapters which are neatly arranged into four sections based on different participants and/or genres in international academic communi- cation as foci of the research, i.e., expert writers （Part I）, novice writers and readers （Part II）, conference participants （Part III）, and non-research academic genres （Part IV）. In the opening chapter, adoption of the volume＇ s unifying theme is justified with a relook at the notion of ＂academic niches＂ and a thorough analysis of interculturality, cross-culturality and aculturality proposed as key terms in examining cross-cultural academic discourse practices. In the introductory remarks on academic niches, it is stated that the key notion which captures the very essence of academic research deserves a redefinition in the changing landscape of international academia where niches are increasingly occupied by scholars working with EAL. The idea is inspired by the well-known CARS model proposed by Swales （1990） in a stepwise description of the rhetorical movements in the introduction of a research paper.
文摘The paper argues that a change of the name from multiculturalism to transculturalism will not work magic if the thinking paradigm that dictates trans- culturalism is still the same mindset that dictates multiculturalism, which is basi- cally swayed by postcolonialism, a victim mentality, or what Fanon termed as a colonized mind that conceives the world ahistorically in terms of a false binarism of the West and the non-West, ignoring entirely the complexities of power relations in intercultural and intracultural interactions, and disregarding the simple facts that, as the West is not a colonizing whole, the non-West is not a colonized monolith and that, as there are diversities between cultures in the West and the non-West, there are differences within the Western cultures, within the non-Western cultures, and within each culture. I discuss the failures of multiculturalism, critique the indiscriminate application of postcolonialism, and look into the problems and risks of conceiving power relations in cross-cultural interactions along the postcolonialist binary line, which has reduced the diversified world into the West and the non-West. The transculturalist hypothesis of World Englishes is used as a case in point. My conclusion is that transculturalism can only be meaningful if it adopts ＂a disposition of openness, liberated from the colonized mind or the postcolonialist identity politics.
文摘This article reviews a unique contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of absence of speech with inspirations for researchers interested in political and media studies. In her recent book Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse, Dr. Melani Schrrter addresses a largely underexplored aspect of political discourse and offers a systematic presentation of theoretical underpinnings and empirical application of the analytical framework proposed for examining discursive absences and communicative value of silence. With three case studies in the German political context, the author demonstrates the possibility and potential in using a combined method to analyze contextualized absence of speech, drawing insights from discourse analysis and pragmatic approaches. This book also deals critically with such significant issues as ritual and political action, thus offering valuable insights to the general theoretical debate on political discourse.
文摘1 IntroductionThe great paradox of our times lies in the fact that people are becoming more and more intransigent about their cultural identity while the crossing of cultural frontiers is a daily practice. How could we reconcile the necessity of going beyond one＇s own limited horizon with the urge for keeping up one＇s own identity？ People have always been living in separate communities ever since there was human society and the merge of small communities into larger ones seems to be a constant process in history. While nation-building, the most significant merge so far, has been frequently realized in iron and blood all over the world, we would earnestly hope that the emerging of the contemporary world community could be effectuated in a more rational and peaceful way.
文摘The transcultural communication that characterizes our times needs to be carried out in a few commonly shared languages and this requirement has sharpened the awareness about uneven language status. While defenders of minor languages frequently make use of such concepts as ecosystem, human rights, capital, power, imperialism, etc. To express alarm at the spread of the English language in the present world, researchers tend to forget that these concepts applied to languages are only metaphors which, taken at their face value, would conceal the non- exclusive nature of language as a communicative instrument. A question is raised as to whether we should go beyond an essentially nationalist perception of language inherited from the nineteenth century.
