Humors in Rip Van Winkle

Humor is widely employed in Irving’s Rip Van Winkle. There are several kinds of humors in this short story, for exam-ple: irony, satire, farce, mockery, etc. Different humors indicate different attitud...     

Intercultural communication— A process model

Relying on fundamental psychological parameters of the communication process, an intercultural model is described which stresses the need to adapt communication content to the cultural meanings and frame of reference of one's audience. This special need is supported by examples showing the nature and depth of the meaning differences which have to be bridged when the persons involved in communication come from different cultural backgrounds. The examples illustrate the potential of free word associations to reveal cultural meanings and their major perceptual and affective components.     

新自由主义经济思潮的复兴及其理论误区

20世纪80年代以来,新自由主义经济思潮重新兴起并占据了统治地位.新自由主义经济理论和思潮几乎遍及所有的经济学领域并影响着经济生活的各个方面,似乎形成了新自由主义经济思潮的一统天下.就在新自由主义大行其道的同时,一些西方经济学家也从理论和实践的角度对新自由主义经济模式进行了批判.     

Pictorial organization in prose learning

Ninety undergraduates of high and low prior knowledge of geology read a difficult prose passage concerning the formation of a meander. Two groups of learners were forced to process a map-like organizer either before or after they read the passage, while a control group was provided no pictorial support. The results showed that subjects with little prior knowledge who were provided with the organizer prior to reading recalled at a level similar to that of subjects with a good deal of background knowledge. The findings were interpreted as support for the use of map-like organizers in the primary position to aid comprehension.     

新课程与历史教师角色的转换

基础教育新课程的实验和推广,使历史教学面临着前所未有的巨大挑战。作为教学活动重要角色的历史教师,必须迅速从传统的角色束缚中解放出来,扮演新的角色。     

Cerebral laterality effects in the dual processing of prose

The degree to which the concreteness of prose material presented in an auditory fashion would interact with learners' lateral preference under different right hemispheric presentation conditions was investigated with 96 normal adults. Forty-eight subjects with consistent right preference patterns and a like number of bilateral individuals were either instructed to image, given a visual-spatial interference task, or given no instructions before listening to passages which differed in abstractness. As predicted across conditions, learners recalled a significantly greater number of ideas when the passage was concrete. Importantly, the abstractness was found to interact with subjects' inferred cerebral dominance. Whereas instructions to image and visual interference had little significant effect on mixed dominant subjects, for more consistently lateralized subjects imagery instructions increased and right-hemispheric interference decreased concrete recall. The results were interpreted in terms of visual and verbal encoding concomitant with cerebral lateralization.     

瑞普·范·温克尔：酗酒的守护天使

自从华盛顿·欧文在他的《瑞普·范·温克尔》中刻画出瑞普·范·温克尔这个人物以来,瑞普就成了饱受争议的角色。瑞普这种备受争议的结局是由他的性格特征所决定的。尽管如此,瑞普还是受到很多读者的欢迎,许多评论家甚至对他好评不断,誉他为美国的英雄。瑞普本是一个嗜好喝酒的普通人物,从睡谷消失多年也是因为喝酒引起,但从美国早期历史的社会场景来看,恰是这种对酒精的嗜好使瑞普成为既受争议又受好评的文学人物。     

论华盛顿会议前后的全国国民外交大会

全国国民外交大会是华盛顿会议前夕在上海成立的一个全国性的民间外交团体。起初,代表们希望通过华会取消不平等条约,实现民族的独立,但是列强和北京政府的表现让他们大失所望。众多代表逐渐认识到列强不会轻易放弃在华特权,华会的结果不过是将中国置于共同剥削的对象,而腐败的北京政府也不可能取得外交的胜利,只有改造内政,才能挽救国家的危亡。这些认识在当时舆论界具有相当的代表性,促进了有利于国民革命的社会意识的形成。     

“中国模式”:缘起、争论与特征

改革开放以来,在中国经济取得巨大成就的同时,以"华盛顿共识"为代表的欧美发展模式在一系列危机后相继陷入僵局。因此,"中国模式"成为国内外研究的焦点。中国模式具有区别于其他模式的五大特征,即历史继承性、政府有效性、改革渐进性、开放自主性与调整中不断发展。总结"中国模式",既有利于进一步深化改革,又为世界多元化发展注入了新的元素。     

从《瑞普·凡·温克尔》看华盛顿·欧文的逃遁情结

随着各种研究方法的深入和经典重读的进行,华盛顿·欧文与其作品间的关系也在不断的被审视。在借鉴民间传说的同时,欧文也将个人经历和心迹隐现其中。他的小说《瑞普·凡·温克尔》就是一篇再现其逃遁历程的故事。综合考查《瑞普·凡·温克尔》及欧文自身所处的环境,运用心理分析的研究方法,不难发现欧文频繁的逃遁是其拒绝遵从传统的个性、欧美社会和文化氛围的反差以及祖先们频繁逃遁潜移默化下的综合产物。