浅谈商务语境下的跨文化交际

随着我国对外开放的进一步深入,我国的跨文化商务交往日益增多。本文就商务预约、礼物赠送、及商务谈判等具体商务活动中的跨文化交际问题进行了探讨。     

Teacher Education in a Democracy

The paper discusses Iris Marion Young's idea of asymmetric reciprocity that rethinks typical understandings of gift giving. Iris Marion Young's proposals for asymmetric ethical relationships have important implications for democratic contexts that seek to take differences seriously. Imagining oneself in the place of the other or expecting from the other what one expects from oneself levels out differences between people and hinders possibilities of interaction.

The conditions of asymmetry and reciprocity of Iris Marion Young's communicative ethics, as well as that of the unexpected as understood within situations of gift giving, bring about new readings of learning and teaching situations. The paper discusses issues of power and knowledge that have important ethical implications for how the relationships between the teacher and student could be imagined and how the teacher and student imagine themselves.

Following Derridean underpinnings to Young's notion of asymmetric reciprocity the paper questions pedagogic attempts that seek to minimize the asymmetric positions of the teacher and the student and challenges educational practices based on the reproduction of knowledge and reproduction of persons. The paper follows Young's arguments against Derrida's reading of asymmetry as being one sided. It argues that such a reading does away with the idea of teaching and learning altogether as teaching necessarily involves acts of responding. It continues to argue that Young's conceptualizations of gift giving as reciprocal and asymmetrical open up alternative understandings of the pedagogic relationships between teachers and students.     

The Nature of the Gift: Accountability and the Professor‐Student Relationship

In this paper I introduce the theory of gift giving as a possible means to reconcile the contradictions inherent in accountability measures of ‘faculty productivity’ in the American university. In this paper I sketch the theory of gift economies to show how, given the historical ideals that characterize the faculty‐student relationship, a theory of gift giving could help us better judge the labor of the faculty. I suggest that it is the relational character of teaching that frustrates accountability measures and that perhaps if viewed as a gift economy—and in particular an economy with ‘reproductive’ ends—we could better grasp the effectiveness of these relationships.     

侗族婚姻交换律对分形理论的阐释

通过侗族婚姻交换来阐明西方数学分形理论在婚姻交换模式中的运用,并将它作为文化人类学方法论来探讨,这不论是对文化人类学基础理论研究,还是对人类婚姻理论的建构都是一种可以借鉴的新方法,也可以说是一个值得探讨的新问题。     

一江春水向东流——李煜词情感特征说略

李煜词情感特征突出。彻底享乐、坦直言情、极情尽致地抒写亡国感受，表现着他的真率；成长环境、文化素养、个人经历、诗人天赋，造就了他的敏锐；自然感发之情，世路飘忽之感、河山社稷之悲，合构成他情感上的巨大负荷。而这真率、敏锐、大负荷的情感特征，正是李煜词作具有经久不衰的感人力量的重要原因     

西府农村婚俗中的抢婚文化遗存

抢婚是一种古老而又野蛮的婚姻缔结形式,这种婚姻形态虽然早已远离现代社会,但它的某些文化表征却在当下的婚俗中有一定程度的呈现。西府农村婚俗中的闭户拒客、撞门冲关、结队迎娶、哭嫁、趁早出阁、索要红包、藏匿物件、闹新房、涂扮公婆等习俗都具有抢婚文化遗存的痕迹。不过,它只是一种戏仿。     

在《婚姻法》的边缘——论“彩礼制度”的功能及其司法意义

彩礼制度作为中国几千年来婚姻缔结的重要制度,具有顽强的生命力,其对今天的婚姻关系的调节仍然具有不可忽视的意义。最高人民法院司法解释规定了彩礼返还的三种情况,对解决生活实践中的彩礼纠纷起到了一定的积极作用。但由于该司法解释设置的彩礼返还规则过于简单,在司法审判中出现了很多问题,引发了许多争议。该文通过对目前理论界各种学说的梳理,结合我国彩礼给付的实际情形,从习惯法的角度出发,探讨彩礼制度的司法意义,并在此基础上对彩礼返还提出立法上的建议,探索将彩礼制度引进司法审判的途径,以更好地解决因彩礼问题而发生的各种纠纷。     

中外礼物交际的符号研究

礼物交际是人类社会的基本符号之一,贯穿于人类社会发展的各个阶段。从礼物本身来看,礼物是一种物品,在交际的研究中,属于非言语交际的范畴;同时礼物也是一种符号,其能指与所指的意义蕴含在礼物的选择和包装等过程中,当礼物被赠送时,传达了送礼人的某种信息,也发挥了这一符号的交际功能。     

古代官员升迁、降黜制度在语言中的投影

我国古代职官制度是我们祖先留下的一份宝贵的文化财富。其中官员的升迁、降黜就形成了一套完整、严密的制度，职官的变动都有一些专门用语深深地刻印在语言中，我们对这些用语进行一番较系统的训释，可以从一个侧面窥视到我国古代灿烂的政治文化。     

学《走遍美国》,看中美文化差异

《走遍美国》)是一部极其实用的中级水平的视听说美语教程。这部教材不仅使我们领略到纯正的当代美国口语，也使我们对中美之间的化差异有了进一步的了解。章从婚礼习俗、体触、礼节、宠物、收受礼物、迷信和独立性等几个方面来探讨这些差异，意欲对各级英语教师和英语学习提供一些参考。     

论孔子“礼治”思想与晋国文化之冲突性

孕育孔子学说的鲁国与晋国在历史文化传统上存在着的巨大差异,导致主张“礼治”的孔子对晋国历史文化传统及现实的叛逆性格指责颇多,表现出二者尖锐的冲突性。集中论述孔子“礼治”思想与晋国文化产生冲突的来龙去脉,从中可以看出造成战国时期开始的儒、法之争的历史前因。     

校友捐赠对高校发展的作用及影响因素探析

伴随着我国经济持续、健康发展,我国高校校友捐赠数额快速增长,已逐渐成为高校办学经费的重要资金来源.文章从改善高校财务状况、促进高校学术自由和增强校友凝聚力等三个方面,分析了校友捐赠对高校发展的积极作用;从校友、学校、社会环境与文化背景、政策与法律制度等四个角度,分析了影响高校校友捐赠的因素.作为校友捐赠的受益主体,高校应加强校友会组织与管理工作,健全和创新校友会的组织体系,加大校友捐赠的宣传力度,营造校友捐赠文化氛围,以吸引更多的校友捐赠.     

论日语教学中文化差异意识的培养

随着经济全球化的不断发展,跨文化问题的研究已经逐渐被提上日程,也成了一种文化现象。在日语学科中,研究人员也开始重视教学过程中存在的文化差异问题。跨文化认识的一个重要的前提就是对文化的差异性有充分的了解。在日语学习过程中,接受者对于日本这个国家社会文化的了解能够很好的提高他们的学习效率,影响其交际能力。     

Beyond Avoidance and Secrecy

Abstract

This paper describes a process-oriented approach to teaching ethical dilemmas to graduate social work students. The authors examine related empirical data and use classroom vignettes to illustrate their teaching methods. Several ethical dilemmas in different phases of clinical practice will be presented, including gift giving and receiving, flexible treatment frame and contact post termination.     

论英语翻译中的文化转向

随着经济的不断发展,世界已慢慢进入融合阶段,经济的发展也更体现出国际化及市场化。英语是全世界沟通的官方语言,每个国家都非常重视对于英语的学习。但是由于各国的文化背景都不一样,导致人们对于同一事物都有着不同的理解,从而使得在进行英语翻译时也要更加注意。文章分析了中西文化差异,并针对差异提出了我国在英语翻译时的文化转向策略。     

The effect of the intergenerational transmission of noncognitive skills on student performance

We analyze whether country differences in the noncognitive skills or qualities that children are encouraged to learn at home, i.e. differences in culture, account for country differences in student performance. We do so by comparing PISA language, mathematics and science scores of second-generation immigrants of different origins living in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland. We use the valuation of different child qualities in the student’s country of ancestry by mid 1980s to approximate students’ cultural heritage. Our estimates suggest that culture plays a prominent role in explaining variation in 15-years-old scholastic performance. A one-standard-deviation increase in our cultural variable accounts to between 10% and 30% of the standard deviation of student performance across ancestries depending on the host country considered. We find that the intergenerational transmission of some child qualities positively related to the conscientiousness personality factor like hard work, responsibility, perseverance and thrift favors the acquisition of cognition as measured by achievement test. A similar result is obtained for the child qualities independence and imagination.     

A logit model with interactions for predicting major gift donors

We provide a new statistical model developed from the alumni database at North-western University for identifying potential major gift donors. Our logit model with interactions predicts which individuals will give $10,000 or more over three years using CHAID (Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detection) combined with logit analysis. Our work goes beyond our earlier research (Lindahl and Winship, 1992) by providing a more effective means of selecting fund-raising prospects. The critical new component in our model is the inclusion of interactions between past giving and other variables. Specifically, we find that for individuals with different past giving records different variables are important. Our results show that prospects with a low past giving level will rarely give gifts over $10,000.     

英汉习语的文化差异及其翻译

习语是各国文化的精髓,它作为语言的精华承载着丰富的文化信息,充分反映出英汉两种语言的文化差异。因此,文章从最能体现中西文化差异的习语着手,论述习语在文化上六个方面中所反映的中西文化差异。在翻译时应该首先弄清它们的文化内涵和实际意义,再根据上下文的意思灵活处理。因此,英汉习语的翻译不应只是两种语言的简单转换,更应是文化的交流。掌握习语的翻译,对于培养语言的领悟力和跨文化的交际能力是十分必要的。     

试论文化冲突与贸易摩擦

每个国家和民族都有着自己独特的文化,由于文化的差异产生了贸易的要求,但也由于文化差异产生了文化冲突。在国际贸易中,文化的冲突会产生贸易摩擦和贸易壁垒。文章论述了文化冲突的具体表现形式以及产生冲突的原因,并就如何化解文化冲突以文化促进贸易的发展提出了建议。     

中西文化差异对英美文学评论的影响

世界是一个多元化的大家庭,各个国家因历史文化底蕴的不同,导致国家与国家之间存在着一定的文化差异。因受文化差异的影响,人们对其他国家文学作品的评论也有着不同的理解。中西文化存在一定差异,东方人民在对西方文学进行评论时会有其不同的观点。英美两国的发展历史不同,其相对的文学作品在类型、语言表达上也均有不同,文章讲述中西文化差异及两个文化差异对英美文学作品评论的影响,首先分析了英美文学作品的发展及特点、英美文学评论的概念,然后探究了英美两国文化差异对英美作品的影响以及中西文化差异对英美文学作品评论的影响。