‘Before I realised they were all women… I expected it to be more about materials’: Art,Gender and Tacit Subjectivity

This article discusses a critical discourse analysis research activity undertaken with a group of undergraduate primary trainees with an art specialism. The research activity involved the use of two contrasting texts discussing the work of Karla Black, Becky Beasley and Claire Barclay. The article explores how the positioning of the two texts affected the student teachers’ ability to engage effectively with ‘women's art’ on a personal and critical level, revealing some highly subjective views and raising questions around intertextuality; particularly how an individual's understanding of contexts, meanings and histories can inform collective interpretation and highlight existing subjectivity. The article subsequently identifies that although students were keen to talk about careful selection of texts, the benefits of using multiple sources and the risks of intertextual and ‘subliminal’ contamination, they were unable to reflect critically upon their own gendered reading of the texts. It concludes that this may well be a signifier of the problem – that the student teachers did not really see a problem at all.     

A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Political News Discourse-A Case Study of News Report about Iraq

Critical Metaphor Analysis is a new method of critical discourse analysis. It aims at revealing attitudes, believes, emo?tions and ideologies of a specific group by comprehensively adopting the knowled...     

The role of a digital engineering platform in appropriating the creation of new work-related mind-set and organisational discourse in a large multi-national company

This paper reports on a case study involving a strategic and innovative approach to creation of an in-house multifaceted digital engineering platform (the DEP) in overcoming a number of organisational problems at a multinational engineering company. The DEP was to be used strategically for simplifying the operational complexity and to create and appropriate new work-related mind-set and new organisational discourse to achieve homogenous working across the organisation, which is a huge challenge. The need for this system emerged from the need to resolve many organisational services related problems that carried phenomenal amount of processes, health and safety risks and to regulate, and, control the running of engineering project. Research data were collected using a longitudinal case study approach over a period of six months. In order to make sense of how the DEP helped the organisation, the study used certain elements of Extended Structuration Theory as a lens to assess the case study. This research discovered that the DEP succeeded in creating and appropriating work-related mind-set and organisational discourse. It also had real influence on working processes and employees at all levels while encouraging transparency, responsiveness, agility and accountability. It continues to help the organisation to govern, manage and maintain good standard of service but many barriers still remain.     

A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis：Taking a Car Advertisement as an Example

This study is a multimodal discourse analysis of an initiative advertisement of the New Cayman released by the official website of Porsche, Follow the Code of Curve, based on the three-dimensional conc...     

论篇章结构教学法与短文写作

文章探讨了篇章结构教学法的特点，分析了篇章结构教学法适应的范围及条件，并根据教学实践的经验积累，把在英文短文写作中的中西方思维方式作了对比，提出了篇章结构教学法在英文短文写作中的实施建议与注意问题。     

浅析英语教学中的文化渗透

语言是文化的一部分,不能独立于文化而存在。由于不同的民族有着不同的社会文化背景,因此,学习一种语言必须了解这种语言所承载的文化。英语教学中必须注重对学生进行文化渗透,首先,应充分利用现有教材,立足课堂,进行文化渗透,其次,要不断开拓第2课堂,加强文化渗透。     

普通科技语篇中的人际意义

不同潜在的读者对科技英话语域特征造成的影响开始受到人们的重视。本文将主要通过作者在人称,语气和情态中作出的选择对普通科技语篇做一个粗略的分析,探索科技语篇中的人际意义。     

汉语口语交谈中的话语重叠现象

本文运用萨克斯提出的重叠的概念和话轮转换理论,对汉语口语交谈中的重叠现象进行考察、分析。从发生重叠的根源上归纳了常见重叠的类型,并对重叠者在重叠发生后的反应、重叠持续的时间和对重叠时受损话语的修复等问题作了初步探讨。     

论英语课堂语法教学的可行性

语法在我国外语教学中一直占据重要位置。近年来交际教学理论的兴起促使人们对语法教学收效低这一事实进行反思。本从交际教学理论、语言习得理论以及外语学习的本质出发。对语法教学的可行性进行研究，认为语法教学不是不重要而是教不得法，并针对语法教学提出建设性的建议。     

The Development of the Olympic Narrative in Chinese Elite Sport Discourse from Its First Successful Olympic Bid to the Post-Beijing Games Era

Abstract

As a phenomenon exogenous to China, the Olympics have been proactively interpreted in the local context since China’s entry (and subsequent re-entry in 1984) into the Olympic movement. With China’s increasing involvement in promoting three bids to host the Olympic Games, two of which were successful, respectively, in 2001 and 2015, the nature of the discourse of key stakeholders in relation to Chinese elite sport has both reflected and reshaped the meaning of the Games to Chinese elite sport. This paper examines the discursive construction process of the Olympics in the Chinese elite sport system by key stakeholders through analyzing statements of political figures on sport and Olympic phenomena, Chinese elite sport policy documents, and the commentaries of leading Chinese sport academics. The analysis of discourse highlights two main features in the construction of the Games in official accounts during the period under investigation. The development of these two themes reflects the nature of the Chinese Olympic discourse, manifests the political power over the interpretation of the Olympics in Chinese context, and continues to characterize the on-going major themes in Chinese elite sport policy.