期刊:
Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies,2023年10(2) ISSN:2330-6343
通讯作者:
Hua Tan
作者机构:
College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University, Shanghai, China;Research Center for Translation, Interpreting and Communication, School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China;[Hua Tan] College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University, Shanghai, China<&wdkj&>Research Center for Translation, Interpreting and Communication, School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
通讯机构:
[Hua Tan] C;College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University, Shanghai, China<&wdkj&>Research Center for Translation, Interpreting and Communication, School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
关键词:
Book reviews;translation studies;intellectual engagement;Translation Studies
摘要:
This interview was conducted face-to-face at the University of Manchester. The focus of the interview between Hua Tan and Dr. Anna Strowe, the Book Reviews Editor for Translation Studies, was on how to write good academic book reviews, especially for translation studies. Academic book reviews play an important role in academic communication. They introduce and evaluate newly published academic works and provide a forum for academics to evaluate each other’s research. In the eyes of many scholars, book reviews are easy to write and publish. Yet, a good academic book review is not that easy to write. Dr. Anna Strowe held that academic book reviews are not confined to fixed structures, but vary from text to text and reviewer to reviewer. In her opinion, the evaluation of the book reviewed or the critical comment on it, or in a different term, the intellectual engagement, is the most important for a good book review. She suggested that young scholars build up their networks and read many book reviews first before starting to write one.
摘要:
Using Systemic Functional Grammar and conceptual framework in the argumentation-oriented approach to discourse, this study analyzes Chinese central government’s “ Report on the Work of the Government” in 2020 (henceforth the Report) to explore the “interpersonal-function topoi” in the political discourse. The Report was delivered and issued against the backdrop of the surging covid-19 epidemic. This study first calculated the frequency of mood, modality and persons in the Report. The statistics were qualitatively analyzed in relation to various topoi-imagery of the crisis vis-à-vis representing the agency-reflected in the interpersonal metafunction of the language in the Report. These topoi play a vital role in winning popular support for the Chinese central government’s anti-epidemic measures and mobilizing the widest public into actions against the covid-19 pandemic. The analysis demonstrates how the analysis of interpersonal metafunction from an argumentation-oriented perspective can shed light on dealing with crisis discourse, especially in the pandemic settings.
期刊:
Open Journal of Philosophy,2023年13(2):195-209 ISSN:2163-9434
作者机构:
[Xinmin Gao] Institute of Mind and Cognition, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China;[Yu Zhang] School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China;[Guanqi He] Research Center for Marxist Theory and Regional Practice, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
关键词:
Mind;The Meta-Question;Psychological Phenomenology;Mind-Body Problem;Ontology of Mind;Psychosemantics
摘要:
Discover the truth-seeking nature of Chinese philosophy of mind. Explore soul concepts, mind-body theories, and more in this insightful study.
作者机构:
[Zou, Shiqian; Ke, Xianbing] Cent China Normal Univ, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;[Ke, Xianbing] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, English Dept, 152 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Ke, X.] C;Central China Normal UniversityChina
期刊:
Professional Development in Education,2023年49(2):297-308 ISSN:1941-5257
通讯作者:
Yan, Chunmei
作者机构:
[Yan, Chunmei] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, English Dept, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;[He, Chuanjun; Guo, Xinjine; Wang, Jianyang] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, Coll English Dept, Wuhan, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Yan, Chunmei] C;Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, English Dept, Wuhan, Peoples R China.
关键词:
Chinese female mid-career EFL teacher educators;regional teacher education universities;plateauing
摘要:
Professional development of teacher educators has received growing attention in recent years owing to their important role in preparing teachers for schools and universities, however, female-dominated mid-career EFL teacher educators in regional teacher education universities remain underexplored. This study examined 18 female experienced teacher educators' professional state, teaching beliefs and competence in a non-elite teacher education university. A combination of longitudinal observations, questionnaires, individual interviews, and official documents was employed to gather data. The results reveal the participants' plateauing indicated by their teaching-focused professional identity and the lack of personal and collective agency for professional development and organisational improvement. Personal and contextual factors were found to have caused their perceived lack of professional expertise, research inactivity in the pervading 'publish or perish' climate. The study yields implications to teacher educators, policymakers, and researchers in different educational and cultural contexts.
期刊:
English Language, Literature & Culture,2023年8(1):5-9
作者机构:
Department of English, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
关键词:
Keywords Lacan;Identity;The Big Other;Self-punishment Paranoia;Aphasia
摘要:
Sherwood Anderson’s capture of the subtlety of inner worlds in his short story “Queer” collected in Winesburg, Ohio shows great insights into the complexity and paradoxes of human psychology, in terms of his deep exploration into issues including identity, neurosis and speech impairment, which demonstrate surprising coincidence with symptoms examined by Lacan. Elmer Cowley’s queer behaviors suggest that he has developed “self-punishment paranoia,” a mental disorder Lacan found and examined in his doctoral thesis. The term illustrates the paradoxical and alienating nature of the relationship between subjects and their identities. Elmer’s attacking of George Willard, the only newspaper reporter of Winesburg and the incarnation of the big Other, is equivalent to the attacking of himself, for George serves as Elmer’s ego-ideal through the mechanism of symbolic identification. Besides, the Cowley father and son also show a certain degree of aphasia. The seemingly nonsensical expression about laundry, which the Cowleys often utters unintendedly when they try to confront Winesburg residents, discloses the truth of the unconscious subject that they desire to be normal like other town folks. The Cowleys’ aphasia indicates their failure of being integrated into the Winesburg community. Anderson’s foresights of Lacanian psychoanalysis yet to be born in his time prove the prophet role a truly insightful writer can assume.
摘要:
Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry is widely acclaimed for its sui generis soundscapes, which shows the poet's highly sensitive auditory perception in his literary creations. Soundscapes, in his poetry, play a pivotal role in revealing social malaise-racial inequalities and gender-biased black relations-in the multiracial US. This article thus explores race- and gender-related societal problems mirrored in Komunyakaa's poetry through the prism of soundscapes. It first aims to examine how soundscapes are presented between poetic lines as a culture carrier, and then investigates the disciplinary power and oppositional function of soundscapes. Combining textual close reading with interdisciplinary research methodology, this article brings to light the complexity and specificity of soundscapes in Komunyakaa's poetry. For one thing, the soundscape constructed by the privileged serves as an oppressive force to discipline the disempowered groups; for another, the soundscape the underprivileged produce is utilized as an instrument of resistance and healing, offering them a sonic weapon to deconstruct the oppressive sound imperialism as well as construct the affective community of African Americans. This study not only adds to the research on Komunyakaa's poetry by offering a renewed viewpoint of excavating this poet and his political proposition of equality and equity, but also attracts academic attention to the role of literary soundscape in Afro-American literature in revealing the long-standing societal problems in the US.
摘要:
Abstract Focusing on The Farming of Bones, Brother, I'm Dying, and the short story “Night Talkers” collected in The Dew Breaker, this article explores how Edwidge Danticat engages with the biopolitics of race in her writing. The biopolitics of race traumatizes people through racial discrimination, exclusion, and purification; in Danticat's works, this is manifested in atrocities inflicted on Haitian workers, the exclusion of asylum seekers, and the deportation of Haitian descendants. Those racially excluded people resist the destructive effects of state racism by creating testimonial narratives to record crimes and atrocities, or by establishing communities for mutual support. Through the dynamics of biopolitical oppression and resistance, Danticat empowers those precarious people and achieves her purpose of political writing: while dissolving the negative influence of biopolitics, she reconstructs individual subjectivities through testimony, and rebuilds fragmented identities through the solidarity of Haitian communities, in order to reaffirm the national identity of the Haitian people.
摘要:
This study investigates the process by which English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student teachers transmute their Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) into Personal Practical Knowledge (PPK) within a blended learning community. Data sources, including conversation transcripts, reflective journals, and field notes, were meticulously examined utilizing the commonplaces of temporality, sociality, and place. Several key findings were unveiled: (1) the volume and focal points of transformed PPK varied across participants; (2) the metamorphosis of PCK into PPK was found to be selectively partial, filtered by factors such as previous learning experiences, course expectations, and levels of engagement; and (3) the selection process was molded within the dynamic interplay of the internal components of the blended learning community and the external socio-cultural conditions. The study concludes that the cognition mechanism of EFL student teachers' PPK is characterized by elements of variation, selection, and dynamism.