漫谈metaphor在诗文创作中的运用

隐喻是英美文学作品使用频率最高、最有表现力的修辞手法。借助认知心理学和汉语修辞学等相关知识来研究隐喻在不同文体中的使用形式、特点和作用，对正确理解隐喻性语言从而提高英语阅读与鉴赏水平大有裨益。     

中国古代的养蚕和文化生活

从地下丝绸遗物的发掘,证明距今5000多年前就有丝绸生产,中国古代黄河流域和长江流域的不同民族,先后发明养蚕。公元前4世纪起,对蚕的生态和生活史有描述,至19世纪,已出版蚕书300多种。论文从蚕的由来传说、诗歌、艺术、医药、丝绸之路和养蚕技术的传播等方面,论述了丰富的蚕文化。     

Cattle, crops and clearing: Regional drivers of landscape change in the Brigalow Belt, Queensland, Australia, 1840–2004

Landscape change occurs through the interaction of a multitude of natural and human driving forces at a range of organisational levels, with humans playing an increasingly dominant role in many regions of the world. Building on the current knowledge of the underlying drivers of landscape change, a conceptual framework of regional landscape change was developed which integrated population, economic and cultural values, policy and science/technology. Using the Southern Brigalow Belt biogeographic region of Queensland as a case study, the role of natural and human drivers in landscape change was investigated in four phases of settlement since 1840. The Brigalow Belt has experienced comparable rates of vegetation clearance over the past 50 years to areas of tropical deforestation. Economic factors were important during all phases of development, but the five regional drivers often acted in synergy. Environmental constraints played a significant role in slowing rates of change. Temporal trends of deforestation followed a sigmoidal curve, with initial slow change accelerating though the middle phases then slowing in recent times. Future landscape management needs to take account of the influence of all the components of the conceptual framework, at a range of organisational levels, if more ecologically sustainable outcomes are to be achieved.     

海归派建筑师?

文章从探讨“海归派建筑师”这个外加的身份定义下,是否存在着某种行为方式的共性,是否存在一种有意识的社会身份和权力的自我建构等这一系列问题入手,认为由于缺乏主体的自我认同,“海归派建筑师”的身份在当代是难以成立的,在操作层面,比较突出的共性特征是非本土化,这与经济全球化的大环境的明显悖论,其社会根基,源自由于东西方社会落差而产生的市民大众心理深层的对西方榜样的需求,并且其异化而且虚设的话语权力是被社会赋予的。文章最终结论,在全球化环境下,地域身份划分方法的不可靠是产生“海归派建筑师”身份定义可疑的根本原因,因而对于“海归派建筑师”而言．正视地域身份模糊这一事实,或许能够带来基于社会立场的更深层次的思考,而这对检视当代中国建筑转型期的过程,无疑也是有益的。     

COLLATE – A collaboratory supporting research on historic European films

In the COLLATE project, we aim to design and implement a Web-based collaboratory for archives, scientists, and end users working with digitized cultural material. Our example domain is the historic film documentation comprising digitized material about European films of the early 20th century. Designed as a content- and context-based knowledge working environment for distributed user groups, the COLLATE system supports both individual work and collaboration of domain experts who are analyzing, evaluating, indexing, and annotating material in the data repository. The system provides appropriate task-based interfaces for indexing and annotating. As a multifunctional means of in-depth analysis, annotations can be made individually but also collaboratively, for example in the form of annotation of annotations. Combining results from manual and automatic indexing procedures, elaborate content- and context-based information retrieval mechanisms can be applied.     

Information technology (IT) in Saudi Arabia: Culture and the acceptance and use of IT

The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT), a model of the user acceptance of IT, synthesizes elements from several prevailing user acceptance models. It has been credited with explaining a larger proportion of the variance of ‘intention to use’ and ‘usage behavior’ than do preceding models. However, it has not been validated in non-Western cultures. Using a survey sample collected from 722 knowledge workers using desktop computer applications on a voluntary basis in Saudi Arabia, we examined the relative power of a modified version of UTAUT in determining ‘intention to use’ and ‘usage behavior’. We found that the model explained 39.1% of intention to use variance, and 42.1% of usage variance. In addition, drawing on the theory of cultural dimensions, we hypothesized and tested the similarities and differences between the North American and Saudi validations of UTAUT in terms of cultural differences that affected the organizational acceptance of IT in the two societies.     

What causes users to switch from a local to a global social network site? The cultural,social, economic,and motivational factors of Facebook’s globalization

This study investigates what causes local users to switch or not to switch from a domestic to a global social network site (SNS), Facebook. In the prediction model using cultural, social, economic factors, and motives for using SNS, we found in S. Korean users that, along with entertainment motives, the expected benefit of a new global SNS was a positive predictor of transition to Facebook. The western cultural values of a global SNS and the sunk costs of using a local SNS were negative predictors of the intention to use Facebook as the main platform of online social networking. Given that global SNSs force anti-localization policies related to privacy protocols and relationship styles, the results highlight the fact that cultural values are a critical factor for resisting globalization of SNSs.     

浅谈我国物流企业文化建设

现阶段,我国物流行业发展迅猛,技术手段不断进步,专业人才也不断涌出,硬件方面达到了世界物流企业的平均水平,但是,却忽视了对企业文化的建设。到目前为止,我国少数物流企业认识到企业的发展壮大不能仅仅依赖于引进先进的技术手段和专业人才,建设企业自身的文化对于企业立足于激烈的市场竞争有很大的优势。本文分析了企业文化的内涵及其对企业发展的意义,以及我国物流企业文化建设中存在的问题及原因,并提出了相应地解决方法及对策。     

论当代韩国漆艺之美及其文化立场

中国漆艺于汉代起大量传延至韩国,在当代,韩国漆艺跻身世界前列,漆艺质量"青出于蓝而胜于蓝",优于中国。韩国现代漆艺在民用中追求至善之美,在时尚中传达极致之美,在宗教中寻觅至静之美,在自然中演绎精细之美。韩国漆艺美学思想昭示:漆工艺不仅是传统工艺本身的问题,还关乎"文化立国"的经济立场与艺术身份的层面。     

文化人类学视角下水西彝族土司建筑的基因解读

物质空间的特征是一种由内在文化 基因决定而呈现出来的显性性状,传统地域 性建筑是特定时代和地区的产物,其营建活 动在“文化基因”传递过程中起到关键作用。 因此,本文以文化人类学作为理论视角,借以 “文化基因”的概念,以水西“土司建筑”这 一地域性建筑为例,探讨物质空间背后的建 筑文化动因,再抽取三个层面的文化基因进 行隐含基因和显性性状之间的互推互证,为 从文化人类学的角度研究建筑内部的文化基 因提供一个参考范式,对于全面认识土司建 筑这一传统地域性建筑以及对其的保护具有 一定的作用。