Adept through adaptation: Third culture individuals’ interpersonal sensitivity

This study evaluated the interpersonal sensitivity of third culture individuals, defined as people who lived in a country other than that of their nationality during their developmental years, by comparing them to mono-cultured individuals. While the notion that third culture individuals develop enhanced perceptual skills as a result of intercultural adaptation is widely accepted in popular and professional literature, this assertion has not been empirically tested. Previous research on intercultural communication competence and adaptation has almost exclusively focused on intercultural exposure among adults. This study collected data from 142 individuals using web-based surveys. The instruments measured two aspects of participants’ interpersonal sensitivity: social and emotional sensitivity. Results showed that third culture individuals have significantly higher social sensitivity than mono-cultured individuals, while mono-cultured individuals reported higher emotional sensitivity. Additionally, no significant correlation was found between greater intercultural experience and increased interpersonal sensitivity.     

Cognitive-inspired domain adaptation of sentiment lexicons

Sentiment lexicons are essential tools for polarity classification and opinion mining. In contrast to machine learning methods that only leverage text features or raw text for sentiment analysis, methods that use sentiment lexicons embrace higher interpretability. Although a number of domain-specific sentiment lexicons are made available, it is impractical to build an ex ante lexicon that fully reflects the characteristics of the language usage in endless domains. In this article, we propose a novel approach to simultaneously train a vanilla sentiment classifier and adapt word polarities to the target domain. Specifically, we sequentially track the wrongly predicted sentences and use them as the supervision instead of addressing the gold standard as a whole to emulate the life-long cognitive process of lexicon learning. An exploration-exploitation mechanism is designed to trade off between searching for new sentiment words and updating the polarity score of one word. Experimental results on several popular datasets show that our approach significantly improves the sentiment classification performance for a variety of domains by means of improving the quality of sentiment lexicons. Case-studies also illustrate how polarity scores of the same words are discovered for different domains.     

非英语专业课堂中教师语码转换的语言顺应论应用维度

语言顺应论从语用学的角度解释语码转换的本质。指出语码转换实际上是人们根据具体语境动态地对语言做出选择的过程。基于维索尔伦的语言顺应理论,分析大学英语课堂中语码转换现象成因,对非英语专业大学英语课堂中教师的英汉两种语码转换进行了应用研究,旨在阐明教师语码转换是对语言现实、社会规约、教师心理现实所做的顺应,对大学英语教学有着重要的实践意义。     

传统的创造性转化——论徐棻《田姐与庄周》的改编特色

徐棻、胡成德同志所创编的川剧《田姐与庄周》,改编自传统剧目《大劈棺》,被称为“化腐朽为神奇”的一出好戏。川剧《田姐与庄周》的成功改编是运用现代意识重审的方法来获得主题新生,以纵向开掘人性深度的方式来达成人物形象的重塑,在横向借鉴其他艺术形式手法的同时固守自身剧种特色等手段来实现传统文化的现代转换,《田姐与庄周》的成功改编为戏曲改革的深入发展提供参考。     

浅谈高校体育教育对学生成长的影响

本文将从高校体育教育对于学生成长的影响方面做出一定的探究。高校体育教育具有特殊的教育功能。体育教育的特殊作用能够直接作用于学生的本身,并且能够在日常的学习生活工作中潜移默化地使学生的心理健康水平、社会适应能力得到提高,并且还可以使学生养成良好的行为习惯,从而使学生本人的综合素质得到提高Ⅲ,有利于促进学生的健康成长。以下我将针对我国高校学生存在的部分问题,从体育教育对高校学生影响的方面进行探究,以得出一定的结论,为今后的教学等提供理论支持。     

网络流行语“hold住”的认知语用分析

随着社会的发展,依托网络得以发展的网络流行语逐步成为网络语言文化的一部分,该文从认知语用角度入手,利用模因顺应论分析了"hold住"作为网络流行语的形成机制,认为"hold住"的流行之所以能够被人们所接受,离不开社会的繁荣和网络的发展,以及人们审美观念的变更,文章最后对网络流行语"hold住"的流行进行了总结。     

情景喜剧配音翻译中的语境顺应

从语境顺应论的观点出发,论述了在情景喜剧《成长的烦恼》的配音翻译中,语境顺应、语言结构的顺应和动态顺应方面的关系。认为语境顺应论对于配音翻译有着相当重要的指导作用。将语境顺应论应用于配音翻译,为配音翻译研究提供了一个新的思路和更广阔的空间。     

Challenges and possibilities in climate change education

Educating and communicating about climate change is challenging. Researchers reported that climate change concepts are often misunderstood. Some people do not believe that climate change will have impacts on their own life. Other challenges may include people＇s difficulty in perceiving small or gradual environmental changes, the fact that overconsumption brings people power and recognition, people＇s weak connection to nature, and people＇s tendency to make emotional decisions and quickly solve environmental problems. Drawn from research, some climate change communication and education strategies are presented. Well designed environmental messages could convince people that they can still reduce the scale of the phenomenon and could link mitigation actions to people＇s positive desires or aspirations, while providing local examples of climate change impacts and illustrated information. In mitigation education, some strategies （future education, reflective, experiential, socio-constructivist approaches and the community of change）, jointly used, could correct the learners＇ misconceptions and lead them to action. In adaptation education, scientists and citizens could get together to choose a specific problem that may worsen with climate change, analyze it, and propose and implement adaptations. In the meantime, pedagogical strategies inspired by cognitive science could strengthen the citizens＇ skills： posing and solving problems, decision-making, scenario building and sustainable planning.