This article explores the intersections of Buddhism,Daoism,and contemporary French literary practice in the study of the everyday(quotidien).Since the 1980s,French literature has increasingly shifted its focus from th...This article explores the intersections of Buddhism,Daoism,and contemporary French literary practice in the study of the everyday(quotidien).Since the 1980s,French literature has increasingly shifted its focus from the exotic to the mundane,engaging with theoretical frameworks developed by scholars such as Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau.Drawing on Buddhist notions of emptiness and dependent arising,as well as Daoist principles of yin-yang interdependence,the article bridges Eastern and Western philosophies to demonstrate the everyday not as a static or trivial backdrop,but as a dynamic and transformative space.It further examines how representations of daily life in the works of Georges Perec and Jacques Roubaud employ the meticulous documentation of mundane details to uncover hidden patterns,rhythms,and structures of human experience.Through literary fieldwork,Perec and Roubaud challenge conventional perceptions of the everyday,unveiling its depth,complexity,and potential for reinvention.展开更多
Owen McCafferty’s Quietly(2012),a two-hander set in an Irish pub,explores how the Troubles continue to shape everyday life in Northern Ireland-an aspect often overlooked in official narratives that celebrate the succ...Owen McCafferty’s Quietly(2012),a two-hander set in an Irish pub,explores how the Troubles continue to shape everyday life in Northern Ireland-an aspect often overlooked in official narratives that celebrate the success of the peace process.The presence of an immigrant character and modern communication devices in the traditional Irish pub setting signifies a new phase of Northern Irish society following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.However,the tense and fragmented conversation between the protagonists,along with their sense of disorientation,reveals the persistence of sectarian divisions and the paralysis of everyday life,which,in turn,reinforce narrow conceptions of identity and lead to the ongoing cycle of violence.By bringing the two protagonists together to confront their past and jointly recount the most devastating day of their lives under the witness of a third party,McCafferty presents the possibility of transcending decades of division at the everyday level,suggesting that true peace requires not only political agreements but also open dialogue between opposing sides and a renewal of values through the enrichment of individual lived experiences.展开更多
The Two Sessions-the annual gathering of China’s top legislature,the National People’s Congress(NPC)and the top political advisory body,the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conferen...The Two Sessions-the annual gathering of China’s top legislature,the National People’s Congress(NPC)and the top political advisory body,the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC)-are not just pivotal events in the country’s political calendar.They resonate deeply with ordinary citizens,influencing daily life across the nation.展开更多
“Wow,this robot is so cool!”In the Hangzhou Shenhao Technology Co.,Ltd.showroom,a humanoid robot gracefully performed Tai Chi,grabbing the attention of a visiting delegation from ASEAN.In September,the group of scho...“Wow,this robot is so cool!”In the Hangzhou Shenhao Technology Co.,Ltd.showroom,a humanoid robot gracefully performed Tai Chi,grabbing the attention of a visiting delegation from ASEAN.In September,the group of scholars from regional think tanks and journalists toured Hangzhou,Jinhua,and Huzhou in east China’s Zhejiang Province.Along the way,they enjoyed an up-close look at how digital and intelligent technologies are subtly changing everyday life.展开更多
Everyday Use is the best of essays written by Alice Walker,a very famous African American woman novelist.In this essay,two sisters from Africa-American family give us a deep impression.Although they are sisters,Maggie...Everyday Use is the best of essays written by Alice Walker,a very famous African American woman novelist.In this essay,two sisters from Africa-American family give us a deep impression.Although they are sisters,Maggie and Dee are different.With a concept of structuralism:binary opposition,this article shows the two sisters:Maggie and Dee have different natures,appearances and the views for the quilt.However,with their attitudes to the quilt analyzed by deconstructionism:breaking the binary opposition,the two sisters are identical:both of them regard the quilt as the rare material.Finally,this thesis points out an insufficiency of the essay.展开更多
Dee,in"Everyday Use",is portrayed as a negative character.Nevertheless,some critics suggest to re-interpret her for some reasonable causes.By using close-reading,this article try to re-evaluate Dee so to eva...Dee,in"Everyday Use",is portrayed as a negative character.Nevertheless,some critics suggest to re-interpret her for some reasonable causes.By using close-reading,this article try to re-evaluate Dee so to evalue Alice Walker’s valuable devotion in character depiction.展开更多
The paper aims at measuring the influence that the everyday theme has exercised in the formation of the idea of space that is permeating the thought of many contemporary urban planners. Through the investigation of tw...The paper aims at measuring the influence that the everyday theme has exercised in the formation of the idea of space that is permeating the thought of many contemporary urban planners. Through the investigation of two recent approaches, the Italian and the American ones, the complex relationships between daily practices and urban spaces, in the continuous redefinition of the concepts of public and private sphere, are described. In this context, the Everyday Urbanists＇ work had the merit to reveal and investigate the social possibilities offered by the patterns of everyday life. They were among the first to speak about a citizenship redefinition, process which has been increasingly debated by many scholars. Citizenship is thus turning to be less formal, while becoming more substantive and insurgent. The paper demonstrates that, according to this crucial change, new and meaningful relations between citizenship and planning can be established and that these are able to open planning practice up to the present ethnographical possibilities of the urban space, and to its tactical and polysemic dimensions.展开更多
Everyday Use is one of the best novels by Alice Walker,who is a famous African American woman writer.It is also the typical work that can reveal the black's attitudes to their culture.In this work,house,fire and q...Everyday Use is one of the best novels by Alice Walker,who is a famous African American woman writer.It is also the typical work that can reveal the black's attitudes to their culture.In this work,house,fire and quilts are the black cultural images.The writer describes the phenomenon that African Americans hold different attitudes to their various cultural images which reveals the African American's living conditions under the diversified culture.展开更多
As an excellent writer in American ethnic literature,Alice Walker devoted full attention to African Americans and their culture.One of her famous stories Everyday Use is a good point,which is worth studying.From the h...As an excellent writer in American ethnic literature,Alice Walker devoted full attention to African Americans and their culture.One of her famous stories Everyday Use is a good point,which is worth studying.From the house,the quilt to the name,Al-ice Walker employed various symbols to show the theme of cultural heritage and identity.It is of significance to analyze and ex-plore the use of symbolism in the text so as to deepen the understanding of the theme.展开更多
It is well known that Everyday Use is considered as one of the greatest stories of the contemporary African-American female culture. Seemly it tells the conflicts among the mother, Maggie and Dee about the quilts afte...It is well known that Everyday Use is considered as one of the greatest stories of the contemporary African-American female culture. Seemly it tells the conflicts among the mother, Maggie and Dee about the quilts after Dee's coming home. But its real intention is discussing African-Americans' worries about their cultural heritages. The mother is devoid of the spirit of resistance and confidence. Dee actually does not love her culture and knows little of her culture. Maggie is also lack of confidence and can't struggle for herself and her culture. Therefore, they are not real inheritors of their own culture.展开更多
In Content and Language Integrated Learning, one key issue is the differentiation between content area language (discipline-specific language) and everyday language and how the linguistic and competence gap can be bri...In Content and Language Integrated Learning, one key issue is the differentiation between content area language (discipline-specific language) and everyday language and how the linguistic and competence gap can be bridged. Language is the conveyor of meanings and it functions differently when the context that it is embedded in changes. In everyday language, frequently-encountered objects and concepts are present and the understanding of an idea is supported with abundant contextual clues. However, academic language is, in a sense, de-contextualized, in other words, context-reduced (Cummins, 2000). Notable features of academic language are high density of meanings, high level of formality, different syntactic structures from familiar and simpler everyday language, and discipline-specific terminology also poses great challenges to the comprehension. This paper will examine the differences between everyday language and the language of particular disciplines and the nature of discipline-specific language features. Drawn from the analysis, pedagogical suggestions are presented with reference to the teaching strategies and ways to bridge the gap. In addition, educational implications for CLIL will also be briefly discussed in the final section.展开更多
"Everyday Use" is well-known story written by Alice Walker, who is a very famous black female writer. This paper will focus on using the decontructionism strategy to dismantle the binary oppositions of the s..."Everyday Use" is well-known story written by Alice Walker, who is a very famous black female writer. This paper will focus on using the decontructionism strategy to dismantle the binary oppositions of the story. The binary oppositions are "Pretty VS. Ugly, Civilized VS. Unenlightened, Hang VS. Use and The Mainstream Culture VS. Non-mainstream Culture". By analyzing, the paper concludes that no culture can be defeated and each culture needs to be passed on. Different cultures should respect each other.展开更多
<b>Objectives:</b> People with acquired brain injury (ABI) have various difficulties when using everyday technology (ET) in their daily life. The aim of this study was to reveal the characteristics of perc...<b>Objectives:</b> People with acquired brain injury (ABI) have various difficulties when using everyday technology (ET) in their daily life. The aim of this study was to reveal the characteristics of perceived difficulties of people with ABI when using ET through a comparison with the control group. <b>Method:</b> We recruited participants in the Kansai area and Okayama prefecture between 2010 and 2015. A total of 24 participants (18 males and 6 females;aged 20 to 62 years;mean age: 42.6 ± 13.3 years) with ABI and 26 healthy controls were interviewed about their perceived difficulties using ET via the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire revised Japanese version (ETUQ-Japan). <b>Results:</b> Compared to the controls, the mean number of ETs used by people with ABI was significantly lower. When various difficulties arose, they were unable to independently manage ET, requiring the assistance of caregivers. <b>Conclusion:</b> It is necessary for the medical staff, involved in the home life of patients with ABI to consider the patient’s perceived difficulties when using ET.展开更多
The present study aims to focus on the relationship between gender and everyday life and reflect on the meanings of being a woman in the 1950s and the 1960s over Sally Potter’s film Ginger and Rosa(2012a).The 1950s a...The present study aims to focus on the relationship between gender and everyday life and reflect on the meanings of being a woman in the 1950s and the 1960s over Sally Potter’s film Ginger and Rosa(2012a).The 1950s and the 1960s are marked with significant changes and transformations in terms of the social statuses and everyday lives of women in many countries all around the world.Women began to question their gendered roles and performances,resist“doing gender”and speak out“the problem that has no name”in these years,which would then evolve into the second-wave feminist movement—a significant historical period in women’s history.Therefore,an analysis of this specific period is considered significant to understand the relationship between gender and everyday life.Thus,the present study first addresses the relationship between gender and everyday life in general terms,discussing the social construction of gender and how we are taught to do gender through socialization.Then,it examines women’s practices,performances,relationships,conflicts,and resistances in their everyday lives throughout the 1950s and the 1960s over the film Ginger and Rosa.Considering the historical,social,and political developments at the time,this study tries to explore significant issues within feminist studies such as the relationship between mothers and daughters,and female friendship/sisterhood through the characters in the film,and comprehend what it meant to be a young girl,a woman,a wife,and a mother in both private and public spheres in these years based upon the director’s own experiences and memories.展开更多
Research has previously demonstrated that aromas of both Salvia officinalis and Salvia lavandulaefolia are capable of modulating aspects of retrospective memory, attention and mood. This study is the first to report t...Research has previously demonstrated that aromas of both Salvia officinalis and Salvia lavandulaefolia are capable of modulating aspects of retrospective memory, attention and mood. This study is the first to report the potential for these aromas to enhance everyday prospective memory performance in healthy young adults. In an independent groups design, three conditions, Salvia officinalis aroma, Saliva lavandulaefolia aroma and no aroma were employed with 45 healthy volunteers in each condition. Prospective memory performance was assessed using the Prospective Remembering Video Procedure. Data analysis revealed that the Salvia officinalis aroma group performed significantly better than the control group on both event and action subscales of the prospective memory task. Saliva lavandulaefolia aroma only led to enhancement for the event measure when compared to controls. No differences were found between the aroma conditions. These findings offer support for those previously reported for the effects of the aromas of Salvia sp. on cognition and again demonstrate differential effects of the two aromas. The results are considered in terms of pharmacological mechanisms.展开更多
Alice Walker is a famous African-American female author whose short story“Everyday Use”takes the conflict between a mother and her two daughters over the final ownership of“a quilt”as the main line and creates thr...Alice Walker is a famous African-American female author whose short story“Everyday Use”takes the conflict between a mother and her two daughters over the final ownership of“a quilt”as the main line and creates three black women characters with bright personality.This paper will focus on the living conditions and spiritual world of black women,and reflects the anxiety of black women on ethnic cultural heritage within the white world and reveals the suppression of the strong culture to the weak culture,and the self-preservation of the weak culture from the perspective of post-colonialism.展开更多
基金funded by Sichuan International Studies University within the framework of the research project“Oulipian Experimentalism and Spatial Structure in the Travel Narratives of Jacques Roubaud”(sisu202008).
文摘This article explores the intersections of Buddhism,Daoism,and contemporary French literary practice in the study of the everyday(quotidien).Since the 1980s,French literature has increasingly shifted its focus from the exotic to the mundane,engaging with theoretical frameworks developed by scholars such as Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau.Drawing on Buddhist notions of emptiness and dependent arising,as well as Daoist principles of yin-yang interdependence,the article bridges Eastern and Western philosophies to demonstrate the everyday not as a static or trivial backdrop,but as a dynamic and transformative space.It further examines how representations of daily life in the works of Georges Perec and Jacques Roubaud employ the meticulous documentation of mundane details to uncover hidden patterns,rhythms,and structures of human experience.Through literary fieldwork,Perec and Roubaud challenge conventional perceptions of the everyday,unveiling its depth,complexity,and potential for reinvention.
文摘Owen McCafferty’s Quietly(2012),a two-hander set in an Irish pub,explores how the Troubles continue to shape everyday life in Northern Ireland-an aspect often overlooked in official narratives that celebrate the success of the peace process.The presence of an immigrant character and modern communication devices in the traditional Irish pub setting signifies a new phase of Northern Irish society following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.However,the tense and fragmented conversation between the protagonists,along with their sense of disorientation,reveals the persistence of sectarian divisions and the paralysis of everyday life,which,in turn,reinforce narrow conceptions of identity and lead to the ongoing cycle of violence.By bringing the two protagonists together to confront their past and jointly recount the most devastating day of their lives under the witness of a third party,McCafferty presents the possibility of transcending decades of division at the everyday level,suggesting that true peace requires not only political agreements but also open dialogue between opposing sides and a renewal of values through the enrichment of individual lived experiences.
文摘The Two Sessions-the annual gathering of China’s top legislature,the National People’s Congress(NPC)and the top political advisory body,the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC)-are not just pivotal events in the country’s political calendar.They resonate deeply with ordinary citizens,influencing daily life across the nation.
文摘“Wow,this robot is so cool!”In the Hangzhou Shenhao Technology Co.,Ltd.showroom,a humanoid robot gracefully performed Tai Chi,grabbing the attention of a visiting delegation from ASEAN.In September,the group of scholars from regional think tanks and journalists toured Hangzhou,Jinhua,and Huzhou in east China’s Zhejiang Province.Along the way,they enjoyed an up-close look at how digital and intelligent technologies are subtly changing everyday life.
文摘Everyday Use is the best of essays written by Alice Walker,a very famous African American woman novelist.In this essay,two sisters from Africa-American family give us a deep impression.Although they are sisters,Maggie and Dee are different.With a concept of structuralism:binary opposition,this article shows the two sisters:Maggie and Dee have different natures,appearances and the views for the quilt.However,with their attitudes to the quilt analyzed by deconstructionism:breaking the binary opposition,the two sisters are identical:both of them regard the quilt as the rare material.Finally,this thesis points out an insufficiency of the essay.
文摘Dee,in"Everyday Use",is portrayed as a negative character.Nevertheless,some critics suggest to re-interpret her for some reasonable causes.By using close-reading,this article try to re-evaluate Dee so to evalue Alice Walker’s valuable devotion in character depiction.
文摘The paper aims at measuring the influence that the everyday theme has exercised in the formation of the idea of space that is permeating the thought of many contemporary urban planners. Through the investigation of two recent approaches, the Italian and the American ones, the complex relationships between daily practices and urban spaces, in the continuous redefinition of the concepts of public and private sphere, are described. In this context, the Everyday Urbanists＇ work had the merit to reveal and investigate the social possibilities offered by the patterns of everyday life. They were among the first to speak about a citizenship redefinition, process which has been increasingly debated by many scholars. Citizenship is thus turning to be less formal, while becoming more substantive and insurgent. The paper demonstrates that, according to this crucial change, new and meaningful relations between citizenship and planning can be established and that these are able to open planning practice up to the present ethnographical possibilities of the urban space, and to its tactical and polysemic dimensions.
文摘Everyday Use is one of the best novels by Alice Walker,who is a famous African American woman writer.It is also the typical work that can reveal the black's attitudes to their culture.In this work,house,fire and quilts are the black cultural images.The writer describes the phenomenon that African Americans hold different attitudes to their various cultural images which reveals the African American's living conditions under the diversified culture.
文摘As an excellent writer in American ethnic literature,Alice Walker devoted full attention to African Americans and their culture.One of her famous stories Everyday Use is a good point,which is worth studying.From the house,the quilt to the name,Al-ice Walker employed various symbols to show the theme of cultural heritage and identity.It is of significance to analyze and ex-plore the use of symbolism in the text so as to deepen the understanding of the theme.
文摘It is well known that Everyday Use is considered as one of the greatest stories of the contemporary African-American female culture. Seemly it tells the conflicts among the mother, Maggie and Dee about the quilts after Dee's coming home. But its real intention is discussing African-Americans' worries about their cultural heritages. The mother is devoid of the spirit of resistance and confidence. Dee actually does not love her culture and knows little of her culture. Maggie is also lack of confidence and can't struggle for herself and her culture. Therefore, they are not real inheritors of their own culture.
文摘In Content and Language Integrated Learning, one key issue is the differentiation between content area language (discipline-specific language) and everyday language and how the linguistic and competence gap can be bridged. Language is the conveyor of meanings and it functions differently when the context that it is embedded in changes. In everyday language, frequently-encountered objects and concepts are present and the understanding of an idea is supported with abundant contextual clues. However, academic language is, in a sense, de-contextualized, in other words, context-reduced (Cummins, 2000). Notable features of academic language are high density of meanings, high level of formality, different syntactic structures from familiar and simpler everyday language, and discipline-specific terminology also poses great challenges to the comprehension. This paper will examine the differences between everyday language and the language of particular disciplines and the nature of discipline-specific language features. Drawn from the analysis, pedagogical suggestions are presented with reference to the teaching strategies and ways to bridge the gap. In addition, educational implications for CLIL will also be briefly discussed in the final section.
文摘"Everyday Use" is well-known story written by Alice Walker, who is a very famous black female writer. This paper will focus on using the decontructionism strategy to dismantle the binary oppositions of the story. The binary oppositions are "Pretty VS. Ugly, Civilized VS. Unenlightened, Hang VS. Use and The Mainstream Culture VS. Non-mainstream Culture". By analyzing, the paper concludes that no culture can be defeated and each culture needs to be passed on. Different cultures should respect each other.
文摘<b>Objectives:</b> People with acquired brain injury (ABI) have various difficulties when using everyday technology (ET) in their daily life. The aim of this study was to reveal the characteristics of perceived difficulties of people with ABI when using ET through a comparison with the control group. <b>Method:</b> We recruited participants in the Kansai area and Okayama prefecture between 2010 and 2015. A total of 24 participants (18 males and 6 females;aged 20 to 62 years;mean age: 42.6 ± 13.3 years) with ABI and 26 healthy controls were interviewed about their perceived difficulties using ET via the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire revised Japanese version (ETUQ-Japan). <b>Results:</b> Compared to the controls, the mean number of ETs used by people with ABI was significantly lower. When various difficulties arose, they were unable to independently manage ET, requiring the assistance of caregivers. <b>Conclusion:</b> It is necessary for the medical staff, involved in the home life of patients with ABI to consider the patient’s perceived difficulties when using ET.
文摘The present study aims to focus on the relationship between gender and everyday life and reflect on the meanings of being a woman in the 1950s and the 1960s over Sally Potter’s film Ginger and Rosa(2012a).The 1950s and the 1960s are marked with significant changes and transformations in terms of the social statuses and everyday lives of women in many countries all around the world.Women began to question their gendered roles and performances,resist“doing gender”and speak out“the problem that has no name”in these years,which would then evolve into the second-wave feminist movement—a significant historical period in women’s history.Therefore,an analysis of this specific period is considered significant to understand the relationship between gender and everyday life.Thus,the present study first addresses the relationship between gender and everyday life in general terms,discussing the social construction of gender and how we are taught to do gender through socialization.Then,it examines women’s practices,performances,relationships,conflicts,and resistances in their everyday lives throughout the 1950s and the 1960s over the film Ginger and Rosa.Considering the historical,social,and political developments at the time,this study tries to explore significant issues within feminist studies such as the relationship between mothers and daughters,and female friendship/sisterhood through the characters in the film,and comprehend what it meant to be a young girl,a woman,a wife,and a mother in both private and public spheres in these years based upon the director’s own experiences and memories.
文摘Research has previously demonstrated that aromas of both Salvia officinalis and Salvia lavandulaefolia are capable of modulating aspects of retrospective memory, attention and mood. This study is the first to report the potential for these aromas to enhance everyday prospective memory performance in healthy young adults. In an independent groups design, three conditions, Salvia officinalis aroma, Saliva lavandulaefolia aroma and no aroma were employed with 45 healthy volunteers in each condition. Prospective memory performance was assessed using the Prospective Remembering Video Procedure. Data analysis revealed that the Salvia officinalis aroma group performed significantly better than the control group on both event and action subscales of the prospective memory task. Saliva lavandulaefolia aroma only led to enhancement for the event measure when compared to controls. No differences were found between the aroma conditions. These findings offer support for those previously reported for the effects of the aromas of Salvia sp. on cognition and again demonstrate differential effects of the two aromas. The results are considered in terms of pharmacological mechanisms.
文摘Alice Walker is a famous African-American female author whose short story“Everyday Use”takes the conflict between a mother and her two daughters over the final ownership of“a quilt”as the main line and creates three black women characters with bright personality.This paper will focus on the living conditions and spiritual world of black women,and reflects the anxiety of black women on ethnic cultural heritage within the white world and reveals the suppression of the strong culture to the weak culture,and the self-preservation of the weak culture from the perspective of post-colonialism.
