Near Field Communication: Getting in Touch with Mobile Users

Near field communication is a method for sending and receiving small amounts of data across very short distances wirelessly. This technology is already available in a number of mobile devices and has many possible uses, including electronic payment, access control, and information exchange. This article will explain the basic principles of near field communication, discuss some of the ways it can be used in libraries, and explore some possible concerns with the technology. A list of resources for additional information is also included.     

Database Mobile Accessibility Assessment at Adelphi University Libraries

An increasing number of users are reaching out to their academic library from their mobile devices to search for scholarly content. As a result, the resources offered through the library Web site should be equally accessible on all devices. Database content is a critical library resource, and vendor products must evolve to function effectively on all types of devices. This study examined 197 databases at Adelphi University Libraries to determine if they are universally accessible either through the provision of an app or a mobile-optimized Web site. The study concluded that the majority of vendor platforms are not optimized for viewing across smart devices. These findings indicate that libraries should encourage vendors to offer mobile-optimized databases, and desktop computers may still be necessary for database searching.     

From the Workplace to Academia: Nontraditional Students and the Relevance of Workplace Experience in Technical Writing Pedagogy

In this study, I compared initial drafts of job application cover letters by nontraditional students in an introductory professional writing course with those by traditional students to determine if prior workplace experience improves rhetorical adaptability in students' writing. Although one might expect nontraditional students to display more rhetorical adaptability, this study reveals no difference. These results suggest that minor changes in pedagogy may help nontraditional students use their workplace experience to improve workplace-oriented writing in the classroom.     

先秦儒家的修辞批评观——以《四书》为例

重新解读以《四书》为代表的先秦儒家经典文本,对其中的修辞批评现象进行梳理和总结,可以发现先秦儒家在自身的话语共同体内无形中确立了“言说厚德”“修辞立诚”“言闻从礼”“言行及义”等言说规范,以及“察言观色”“听言现行”“知言及人”等修辞批评方法。以孔子和孟子为代表的先秦儒家,在宣扬儒家思想的话语实践中逐渐形成了独特的儒家修辞批评观。     

Digital householding: calculating and moralizing domestic life through homemade spreadsheets

ABSTRACT

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among young heterosexual middle-class couples living together in Warsaw and its suburbs, this article explores the role of their homemade accounting and budgeting spreadsheets in the manufacture of domestic economic life. We argue that such digital forms actively intervene in the representation, constitution, shaping, and performing of their respective households as calculative agencies and moralized domains. We present and analyse a case study of five couple's householding with software, and based on that analysis call for an extension of the current interest in the generative role of financial devices from markets to households.     

大陆官方媒体涉台话语模式及其权威属性

本文基于修辞权威和凡.戴克话语权力理论,旨在探究大陆官方媒体涉台话语的表征模式及其权威属性。研究发现:大陆涉台官方媒体话语常常藉助于国家机器等官方权威以增强其修辞效果,提高话语可接受性;同时,传统的修辞性权威如正义感、人格和职业等因其非强制的隐性说服优势而更受青睐。此外,为凸显大陆中央政府两岸和平统一的官方权威意志,涉台话语广泛采用突出成就的主题、以"叙"带"议"的叙事和注重认同的表达等话语模式。     

The use of augmented reality games in education: a review of the literature

This paper provides a review of the literature about the use of augmented reality in education and specifically in the context of formal and informal environments. It examines the research that has been conducted up to date on the use of those games through mobile technology devices such as mobile phones and tablets, both in primary and secondary education. The review of the relative literature was carried out in the period 2000 to early 2014 in ScienceDirect and ERIC. The outcomes of this review illustrated a set of studies that provide evidence of positive outcomes regarding student learning. These studies, which focused mainly on the natural sciences and took place within informal learning environments, used both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The earliest study that was conducted about this topic used personal digital assistants, while the more recent one used smart (mobile) phones and tablets. The services of augmented reality focused on markers/quick response codes, virtual items, global positioning system services as well as on platforms for game creation. The findings of the literature review are discussed in relation to research approaches that are needed for augmented reality games to be played either in formal or informal learning environments.     

Periodicals

SELECTED PAPERS OF EMIL FROESCHELS 1940–1964. Introduction by H. Beebe. Amsterdam: North‐Holland, 1964; pp. x+232. Paper $5.60.

CHILDHOOD APHASIA AND BRAIN DAMAGE: A DEFINITION. Edited by Sheldon R. Rappaport. Narberth, Pa.: Livingston, 1965; pp. 128. Paper $3.00.

CHILDHOOD APHASIA AND BRAIN DAMAGE: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. Edited by Sheldon R. Rappaport. Narberth, Pa.: Livingston, 1965; pp. 164. Paper $3.00.

THE EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF MEANING. By Marjorie B. Creelman. New York: Springer, 1966; pp. xi+219+unpaged Indexes. $6.75.

HUMAN MOTIVATION: A SYMPOSIUM. 1965. Edited by Marshall R. Jones. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965; pp. vii+87. $4.25.

NEBRASKA SYMPOSIUM ON MOTIVATION: 1965. Edited by David Levine. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965; pp. xi+344. S5.50; paper $2.50.

THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH. By Daniel Jones. (Fourth edition, revised and enlarged.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1966; pp. xxiv+223. Paper $1.95.

RULES OF PRONUNCIATION FOR THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. By Axel Wijk. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966; pp. 160. Paper 8/6.

THE COLLOQUIAL STYLE IN AMERICA. By Richard Bridgman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966; pp. vii+254. $6.50.

CRITICAL DIMENSIONS: THE ART OF PUBLIC ADDRESS CRITICISM. By Anthony Hillbruner. Random House, 1966; pp. 180. Paper $1.95.

WILLIAM PENN, THE POLITICIAN: HIS RELATIONS WITH THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. By Joseph E. Illick. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1965; pp. x+267. $5.75.

ADAMS AND JEFFERSON: THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP. By John Murray Allison. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966; pp. xii+349. $4.95.

PROHIBITION AND POLITICS: TURBULENT DECADES IN TENNESSEE, 1885–1920. By Paul E. Isaac. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1965; pp. xi+301. $6.00.

GEORGE W. NORRIS: GENTLE KNIGHT OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. By Norman L. Zucker. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966; pp. x+186. $5.00.

THE IRISH AND IRISH POLITICIANS. By Edward M. Levine. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1966; pp. xi+241. $6.00.

THE PAPERS OF WOODROW WILSON, Vol. I: 1856–1880. Edited by Arthur S. Link. Foreword by Raymond B. Fosdick. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1966; pp. xxviii+715. $15.00.

THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF WOOD‐ROW WILSON. Edited by E. David Cronon. Indianapolis: Bobbs‐Merrill, 1965; pp. xcv+ 559. Paper $3.45.

DIONYSUS: MYTH AND CULT. By Walter F. Otto. Translated with an Introduction by Robert B. Palmer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965; pp. xxi+243. $6.50.

SOCRATES AND ARISTOPHANES. By Leo Strauss. New York: Basic Books, 1966; pp. 320+Index. $8.50.

TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC. By T. S. Eliot. New York: Farrar, Straus &; Giroux, 1965; pp. 189. $4.95.

THE CHOICES OF CRITICISM. By William Chace Greene. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1965; pp. vi+207. $7.50.

THE DYSKOLOS OF MENANDER. Edited by E. W. Handley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965; pp. x+323. $10.00.

THE PLAY CALLED CORPUS CHRISTI. By V. A. Kolve. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1966; pp. viii+337. $8.50.

THE SHAKESPEARE INSET: WORD AND PICTURE. By Francis Berry. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1965; pp. x+173. $5.75.

ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE. Edited by Gerald W. Chapman. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1966; pp. viii+176. $5.00.

ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE. Edited by Gordon Ross Smith. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1965; pp. 249. $6.00.

DUALITIES IN SHAKESPEARE. By Marion Bodwell Smith. University of Toronto Press, 1966; pp. vi+252. $6.50.

SHAKESPEARE: TIME AND CONSCIENCE. By Grigori Kozinstev. Translated by Joyce Vining. New York: Hill &; Wang, 1966; pp. 276. $5.95.

KING LEAR IN OUR TIME. By Maynard Mack. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965; pp. viii+117+unpaged Index. $3.75.

METHOD AND MEANING IN JONSON'S MASQUES. By John C. Meagher. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1966; pp. vii+214. $6.50.

THE IRISH STAGE IN THE COUNTY TOWNS, 1720–1800. By William Smith Clark. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965; pp. xii+405. $11.20.

JAMES BRIDIE: CLOWN AND PHILOSOPHER. By Helen L. Luyben. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965; pp. 180. $5.00.

BEHIND SPANISH AMERICAN FOOTLIGHTS. By Willis Knapp Jones. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966; pp. xvi+609. $9–50.

FOLK THEATRE OF INDIA. By Balwant Gargi. Foreword by Millard B. Rogers. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966; pp. x+217. $8.95.

JODISCHES THEATER IN NAZIDEUTSCH‐LAND. By Herbert Freeden. Tubingen, Germany: J. C. B. Mohr, 1964; pp. x+184. $6.25.

MODERN TRAGICOMEDY: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE NATURE OF THE GENRE. By Karl S. Guthke. New York: Random House, 1966; pp. xv+205. Paper $1.95.

MODERN TRAGEDY. By Raymond Williams. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1966; pp. 208. $5.50.

THE SERPENT'S EYE: SHAW AND THE CINEMA. By Donald P. Costello. Foreword by Cecil Lewis. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1965; pp. xxi+2og. $6.50.

THE JAPANESE MOVIE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY. By Donald Richie. Preface by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Rutland, Vt.: Japan Publications Trading Co., 1956; pp. 200. $11.00.

PERFORMING ARTS—THE ECONOMIC DILEMMA. By William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1966; pp. xvi+582. $7.50.     

Monument Wars: Washington,DC, the National Mall,and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape

SELF‐CONSUMING ARTIFACTS: THE EXPERIENCE OF SEVENTEENTH‐CENTURY LITERATURE. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. pp. 432+xiv. $12.50.     

Gestalt psychological theory's value in rhetorical criticism

Rhetorical critics should avoid affirming the constancy hypothesis, the belief that a stimulus contains the response. After foregrounding Burke's avoidance of the constancy hypothesis in Permanance and Change as a model for rhetorical critics, this essay examines five examples of affirmation of the constancy hypothesis in rhetorical criticism. Affirming the hypothesis oversimplifies complex audience dynamics and prevents critics from understanding infrequent, more unified audience responses.