Deliberative communication goes to college: the ‘Deliberation Forum’ project as a democratic agent of empowerment for communication students

A new field of research has developed over the last few decades, called ‘Deliberative Communication’. It focuses on the potential contribution of public deliberations to strengthening the foundations of democracy and the promotion of social–political goals and objectives. The current research focuses on a unique case study, the ‘Deliberation Forum’ project, conducted by the Department of Communication at the Yezreel Valley College, Israel. The researcher sought to learn about students' experience of participating in this online forum and the effects they attributed to it, through unstructured interviews she held with them. The students indicated that, for the most part, the experience of participating in the deliberation forum was very positive: it enhanced their self-image as thinking people; strengthened their sense of self-importance as students within the department; developed and reinforced habits of keeping abreast of current affairs as well as critical thinking; and finally, the experience developed and strengthened habits of active participation in pluralistic debates. The study findings indicate that participation in projects of this kind has a clear empowerment potential, while also improving participants' attitude toward public deliberation and decision-making processes.     

当今文学批评中的语境问题管见

＂语境＂成为文学批评与研究之中的一个常用术语,不仅是因为语言问题,而且是因为文学问题历来都不是孤立的,甚至还可能与许多非文学的问题相关。因此,从特定的文学语境出发或将文学放在特定语境之中进行评介就成了批评界司空见惯的做法。这种文学批评,我们暂且称之为语境批评。然而在语境批评之中,＂语境＂给批评者提供某种论证视角和理论支持的同时,也常常使批评者面临诸多的质疑与困惑。     

对《史记》殷、周、秦起源神话的考量

神话,是原始先民们留下的宝贵文化遗产。司马迁在《史记》《殷本纪》、《周本纪》、《秦本纪》三篇本纪的开端,分别引用了殷、周、秦起源的神话传说。这些充满神秘色彩的神话,蕴藏着耐人寻味的文化内涵。研究探讨这些神话传说,既可以使我们进一步认识《史记》的伟大价值,又可以挖掘其蕴藏着的文化元素,从而探究原始社会的奥秘。     

关于大学英语文化教学及学生交际能力的一项实证研究

随着现代科技的发展以及世界经济全球化、一体化步骤的加快,来自不同文化背景的人们之间的交流与合作日益频繁。为了加强交流和沟通,消除交往过程中可能产生的误解,减少交际障碍甚至冲突,语言教学不仅应当致力于语言本身的理解,还应该注意学生自身文化素养以及实际的跨文化交际的培养。作者采用定性和定量研究两种方法对贵州大学60名二年级两个班级的学生进行了文化教学与交际能力培训实验。定性研究结果显示实验组的水平高于控制组,定量分析结果发现在英语课堂中进行文化教学有助于提高学生的文化意识,反过来,文化意识的提高也有助于其交际能力的提高。     

公共图书馆如何在地方文化建设中发挥更大作用——以遵义市图书馆为例

作者结合十七大和十七届五中全会精神,阐述了对遵义文化未来发展的建议以及公共图书馆在推进地方文化发展中的定位和作用。     

英语文化导入的PPT课件设计与应用

在高职高专大学英语课堂教学中,加强文化导入可以有效地促进学生的实际使用英语进行交际的能力。结合多媒体课件制作实例,提出如何利用控件和VBA程序开发课件并结合课堂教学策略进行英语文化导入,既增强课件的智能化和交互性,又构建学生交际的文化语境。     

On the Culture Elements in Translation

As a form of cultural exchanges,it isn’t avoidable for translation and culture to be closely connected and influenced by each other.In the translation process,target work is influenced by all kinds of cultural elements so that target work is different from source work in some degree.The content of source work remains the same,but the form of that is changed more or less as the result of the target language culture.Sometimes the culture of the source language and that of the target language may be on equal footing complementary but sometimes they might be unequal because of their different position of comparative advantages,one culture is neglected.The cultural elements of translator have a great influence on the target work.The target work is the recreation of the translator.     

“经世致用,和而不同”：当代大学文化精神

“经世致用,和而不同”作为大学校训,蕴含着丰富的教育哲学思想,体现了当代大学应具有的文化底蕴。深刻理解这种精神的育人功能,努力培育这种文化精神,着力提升当代大学的文化品位,增强大学教育的生机和活力,是时代赋予大学教育工作者的历史责任。     

非言语交际在儿童英语教学中的应用(英文)

Non-verbal communication is a necessary and an important approach when we communicate with others. Teaching is also a kind of communications between teachers and students. So, non-verbal behaviors that teachers adopt during class are very useful, especially to teach pupils English. This paper is based on this and discusses different non-verbal behaviors in the pupils’ English class.     

Analysis on Chinese/English Code-Switching in Computer-Mediated Communication Based on Meme Theory

Nowadays,computer-mediated communication(CMC) becomes one of the most convenient ways for people to connect with each other in which Chinese/English code-switching has been frequently used and widely spread.The article will memeticly interpret this language phenomenon based on the authentic examples collected from various kinds of CMC,and point out that the Chinese/English code-switching in CMC is a kind of strong memeplex which includes many different strong memes,resulting in the popularity of Chinese/English code-switching in CMC.