Deconstitutive rhetoric: The destruction of legal personhood in the Global War on Terrorism

This essay examines a set of memoranda, speeches, and other official discourse issued during the Global War on Terrorism that transformed the legal paradigm under which the enemy was defined and authorized new norms of conduct previously prohibited by law. It argues that these texts employ “deconstitutive rhetoric,” defined as discursive action that undermines the existing legal status of those to whom it refers and produces a disarticulate, destitute subject by denying the individual access to the civic forums in which rhetorical agency may be exercised. The essay begins with an analysis of the use of deconstitutive rhetoric in the decision to legally re-define Afghanistan as a “failed state” in order to absolve the United States of treaty obligations with that nation. It then addresses the emergence of “unlawful enemy combatant status,” a new legal category not recognized under the international laws of war. The essay concludes with a discussion the Obama administration’s detention and drone strike policies, which have continued to use deconstitutive rhetoric to undermine the legal status of those captured and killed in the Global War on Terrorism.     

Matters of Form: Questions of Race,Identity, Design,and the U.S. Census

This case examines how functionalist approaches manifest culturally based on users’ contexts. The authors conduct a critical visual semiotic analysis of the race and Hispanic origin questions on the 2010 U.S. Census form, demonstrating how incongruities in design potentially harm people. This demonstrates a need for adding critical analyses to design and research and it refocuses the Society for Technical Communication’s value of promoting the public good on to design and documentation in order to fight injustice.     

听力理解模式及其在听力测试中的作用

聆听(Listening)是外语学习者接触外语和语音输入的主要途径之一，它对外语学习起着重要的作用。本文介绍了心理语言学的三种听力理解模式：“自下而上”模式(bottom-up)、“自上而下”模式(topdown)和“互动”模式(interactive)，并结合大学英语四级考试全真听力测试题，阐述了这三种模式对听力理解的重要指导作用。     

The Talking Drawings Strategy: Using Primary Children’s Illustrations and Oral Language to Improve Comprehension of Expository Text

Listening and reading comprehension can be assessed by analyzing children’s visual, verbal, and written representations of their understandings. “Talking Drawings” (McConnell, S. (1993). Talking drawings: A strategy for assisting learners. Journal of Reading, 36(4), 260–269 is one strategy that enables children to combine their prior knowledge with the new information derived from an expository text and “translate” those newly-acquired understandings into other symbol systems, including an oral discussion with a partner, a more detailed drawing, and written labels for the drawing. The Talking Drawings strategy begins by inviting children to create pre-learning drawings. These initial drawings are a way of taking inventory of a child’s current content knowledge about a particular topic. After pre-learning drawings are created and shared, children listen to or read an expository text (e.g., information book, passage from a textbook) on the same topic as their drawing. Pairs of students discuss the information and either modify their pre-learning drawings to be more detailed or create completely new drawings that reflect the recently-acquired information. Students are encouraged to label their drawings with words in a diagram or schematic fashion. By evaluating the “before” and “after” artwork, educators can identify advances in students’ reading and listening comprehension of the terminology, facts, and principles on a particular topic.     

谈职业学校学生英语学科学业评价

分析了浙江省现行职校学生英语学科的学业评价体系及其不足,提出了一个改进的评价体系,认为因材施考、增设口试、恢复听力考试和全省职业学校英语等级考试制度,都是有效的评价手段。     

试论说明文语言的准确性

语言的准确性是说明文教学的重要内容之一.说明文语言的准确性,体现在数据的使用、概念的限制、语序的安排和修辞的运用等方面.     

词语修辞的多维透视

词法修辞的研究领域十分广阔。随着相关学科的不断发展，对词语修辞的研究逐渐呈现出边缘化、立体化的态势。从语形、语义、审美、文化维度，透视词语修辞所具有的符号化、陌生化、审美化、社会化的特质。     

强化语文教学提高学生听说读写能力探研

对学生听、说、读、写综合能力的培养,是我国现阶段语文课堂所大力提倡的教学目标。在语文教学过程中,教师要在引导学生学会"听"的基础上,进一步提高"说"的能力,并通过课内及课外的阅读不断积淀语文底蕴、夯实语文功底,进而向提高写作能力迈进。     

英汉语句修辞模式差异与汉式英语

汉式英语是中国学生写英语作时常出现的错误，其原因是受汉语句子修辞模式的影响。这里主要论述了英汉语在主语、谓语、修饰语、一致性原则及句子结构等方面的差异，探讨了汉式英语产生的根源，这将为消除汉式英语有很大帮助。     

速读、速听:一种提高学生英语听力的方法

本文是作者根据自己的教学经验 ,结合目前大学生听力水平上不去的实际情况 ,对方万胜先生所著的《速听学英语》一书中所讲的学习方法加以整理、概括 ,试图找出一种适合大学生们提高英语听力的有效途径。文中提出三点 :1.用“音乐”来训练耳朵 ;2 .速读 +速听 ;3.“音”一定要掌握。