Schools as dangerous places

When students set off for school each day how many of them or their caregivers consider for a moment that they will spend the day at a potentially dangerous place? On the contrary, students and caregivers probably view schools as safe havens, and official research suggests that this is the case for the majority of teachers and pupils. However, underlying this official view, schools are more and more seen as much less benign and safe. The popular press, for one thing, is certainly keen to report instances of schools as dangerous places. This article examines schools as dangerous places because of dangers from pupils to pupils, teachers to pupils, teachers to teachers, pupils to teachers and dangers from the physical and natural environment. The discussion is framed in terms of the culture of the school and the increasingly legal nature of the schooling and educational environment.     

日常情境会话中“方位”的确定

确切地说出自己所在位置是人们日常生活中经常遇到的事情。有很多可供选择的表示方位的词语或地理术语,这些词可能都合适,但在特定的情境下,要从这些词语中选择最合适的词语来表达自己所处的方位,要做出最合适的选择,就必须得知道“我们现在在哪儿？”“谁想知道我们在哪儿？”“对方又在哪儿？”。文章在借鉴了前人研究的基础上,结合对日常生活的观察和体验,对如何确定方位进行了初步探讨。     

特定工作场所语言使用内部变异研究

采用社会语言学定量研究语言变异的经典方法,通过收集大量的语料,用定量和定性相结合的方法,分析了自由市场小商贩和商场营业员这个特定群体内部在称谓用语、交际模式以及由性别而引起的礼貌用语方面的差异,以揭示这个特定群体存在的语言的内部变异。     

世界上最浪漫的地方

世界上有很多带着"浪漫"标签的地方,令许多人神往——伦敦、巴黎、威尼斯等,这些远近闻名的城市以其各自的特色征服着来自世界各地的旅行者。本期我们选登了另外一些优美浪漫的城市和岛国供大家欣赏。     

Building effective places for multicultural learning

Architects who use universal design create accessible spaces for diverse users. Jeanne Higbee and Heidi Barajas describe how that model can be adapted to the design of effective learning environments for a wide range of students.     

Changing English in a Changing World

This paper first investigates the phenomenon of changing English in our global village and the possible reasons for the changes,and then tries to discuss how people can understand this kind of change in terms of English is regarded as lingua franca nowadays.Finally,the implications and suggestions are drawn in terms of how people should have appropriate attitudes towards those changes.     

改变方向

“No! ”I stated without apology, “I’m not giving you one red cent.”The beggar flipped me off with a stream of profanity.     

“换小孩”引发的英语标识风波

2008年8月，一场“换小孩”的英语标识风波，在祖国宝岛台湾闹得沸沸扬扬。当月4日，台北一家大报在头版位置发表文章，详细报道数条地铁线里给婴儿换尿布的台子，“错误”使用了Baby Changing这样的英文标识。文章说，“双铁”翻译“出包”（笔者注：     

《诗品》诗人籍贯辨说

本文由钟嵘《诗品》诗人籍贯正误之辨 ,寻找出辨明中国文学史上众多诗人、作家籍贯古今地名的规律 ,有助于古典文学研究中的“贵在知人论世”。     

Tuition fees and the demand for university places

Estimating the effect of tuition fee increases on demand for a university education is complicated by the potential endogeneity of tuition fees. The relative homogeneity of university tuition fees within Canadian provinces and the role of provincial governments in university funding and policies, provides an opportunity to use changes in the political party in power to identify plausibly exogenous changes in tuition fees. System estimates that take into account endogeneity of fees show large effects relative to single equation estimates, and to previous Canadian studies – a C$1000 increase in university tuition fees is estimated to reduce the enrolment rate by between 2.5 and 5 percentage points.