A social relations analysis of participation in small groups

Two approaches to explaining the relation between interaction and participator judgments in small groups are examined. The first, expectations states theory, suggests that participator judgments are consistent across raters for a given target, and that such ratings are a function of the heuristic processing of social information. The second approach, the local management model, assumes more thoughtful processing of members' behaviors, leading to uniqueness in how perceivers evaluate targets as participators. A social relations analysis of participator assessments in same- and mixed-sex groups revealed consensus in participator judgments; uniqueness also played a role in how members perceived each other as useful participators. In addition, consensus was correlated with participation, but not with sex. The discussion addresses the necessity and sufficiency of each model as well as the conditions under which each model would better fit the data.     

浅析“咆哮体”的修辞艺术

＂咆哮体＂是时下一种流行的网络文体,其独有的咆哮、怒吼的风格深受网民的关注,其修辞手法的运用也使得网络语言熠熠生辉。＂咆哮体＂包含的修辞艺术使其在语用表达上具有自己的特色。以＂咆哮体＂为例进行分析,考究＂咆哮体＂的修辞语言艺术,阐释＂咆哮体＂中常用辞格的种类和特点,有利于更好地研究网络语言。     

“四个世界”与修辞

王希杰先生将语言世界、物理世界、文化世界、心理世界统称为＂四个世界＂。它以语言世界为轴心,结合物理世界、心理世界、文化世界及＂四个世界＂之间的层次关系,探讨并完成＂四个世界＂理论对汉语修辞的思想观念上的革新、研究方式方法上的突破,并以此为切入点,着重研究解释汉语修辞的发生原理、运作机制,从而反映修辞的本质和规律。用＂四个世界＂理论阐述汉语修辞现象,理解起来简单明了,把握实质轻松自如,具有科学性和人文性的精神内涵。利用＂四个世界＂理论,可以使我们从更为广泛更为宏观的方面理解修辞,更为简便更为明了地掌握修辞,更为恰当地发挥修辞的语用功能,从而超越以语言为本位的狭义的微观的传统修辞观念。     

歌词创作中设问运用的语言艺术

对于歌词里经常运用的设问修辞格,根据问句与答句的接续形式的不同,分为单问单答、单问连答、连问单答、连问连答四种类型,可集中明显地认识设问在歌词创作中的普遍应用和广泛体现。设问在歌词创作上具有兴波助澜,引人思索的语言艺术功能,用得好,能引起人们的注意,诱人思考,使演唱的内容变得更加吸引人。     

三性与修辞学——重读李晋荃《“准确性、鲜明性、生动性”是修辞的要求吗？——兼谈修辞学的研究对象》

毛泽东在《工作方法六十条（草案）》（1958年1月）中提出＂三性＂（准确性、鲜明性、生动性）之后,很快成为修辞学的纲领。李晋荃的《＂准确性、鲜明性、生动性＂是修辞的要求吗？——兼谈修辞学的研究对象》（1980年）是一篇拨乱反正的论文。三十年之后,李文中的观点需要重新认识,这其实是对修辞学的性质与对象的再思考。     

“语文”之法是修辞

语文≠语言。"语文"是中小学一门课程。其含义是人们运用语言表达思想感情的过程及结果。语言则是语音、词汇、语法构成的符号系统,即一种语文交际的备用工具。话语文章是语言运用的结果即言语交际的中介,虽由语言文字构成,但和语言文字已经不是一回事,因为它是经过人们的头脑组织加工制造出来的言语形式,并承载着说写者思想感情的产品。二者具有本质区别,所以"语文之法"不等于"语言之法"。运用语言讲究表达与接受的交际效果,效果是"语文"的灵魂,修辞是研究如何提高运用语言效果的科学,因而"语文"之法是修辞,不是语法。     

以文体学分析布什总统对朝核试验声明

文章运用英语文体学分析、研究和调查英语体裁的语言特点,着重提出每个文体自己独特的表达方式。分析英语文体学可以从以下几个方面着手：语音、词汇选择、句型选择、修辞手法以及篇章结构。文章选择布什总统发表公众演讲作为例子来研究其语言特点（如词汇及句型选择）,旨在使英语学习者了解演说者演讲词的文体特点,并且懂得在不同的语言环境下运用不同的文体来达到更好的表达效果。     

词中诗画 笔底烟花——从修辞、语法、意境方面谈方文山的歌词创作

歌词作为一种特殊的文体,特殊性在于它是与音乐相结合的艺术,并伴随着歌曲的流行而在受众中广泛传播。方文山被称作华语流行乐坛第一词人,他的创作在"诗"和"歌"间游刃有余,如他自己所说,他是以"作诗"的方式作歌词。他的创作形式多样,内容丰富。本文分别从修辞方法的灵活运用、语法手段的创新求变以及意境的独特构建上来分析方文山歌词的特点。     

Suburban American Punks and the Musical Rhetoric of Green Day's “Jesus of Suburbia”

This essay examines Green Day's “Jesus of Suburbia” as an artifact and reflection of suburban American punk culture. It looks at how music, lyrics, and the ethos of the performer interact to create a message that fostered identification between speaker and audience by using Sellnow and Sellnow's Langer-based illusion of life perspective. In this case it was found that music can be seen as an effective tool for expressing the suburban punk experience due to its ability to convey both linguistic and emotional content.     

(Trans)national Advocacy in the Ousting of Milošević: The Otpor Movement's Glocal Recursions

Over the past decade a remarkable number of revolutions worldwide imitated the touchstone youth movement Otpor, which played an influential role in ousting Serbian President Slobodan Milo?evi? in 2000. Given the continual presence of Western organizations and resources in Otpor's uprising, I argue that the movement demonstrates a type of communication termed glocal recursion—a rhetorical strategy that invites social change by imitating global methods of resistance, with slight variations, in local contexts. In addition to its time-based connotations (in which activists ground new messages in old texts), glocal recursion advances a space-based understanding of recursive appeals (with activists creating local messages from global structures). This essay analyzes four aspects of Otpor's glocal recursions, including its technological conditions, structured spontaneity, indigenous adaptations, and dialectical reappropriations. Various implications are drawn for communication research.