This study investigated the relationship between college students’awe and depression,along with the mediating roles of future self-continuity and presence of meaning.891 Chinese college students(570 female;mean age 1...This study investigated the relationship between college students’awe and depression,along with the mediating roles of future self-continuity and presence of meaning.891 Chinese college students(570 female;mean age 18.59;SD 1.34)from one university completed four surveys:Dispositional Awe Subscale,Future self-continuity Scale,Meaning in Life Scale and Depression Scale.Using structural equation modelling and the bootstrap method,the results delineated that awe negatively related to depression,and future self-continuity and presence of meaning had a serial mediation effect,reducing depression.The study implies educational institutions should foster a positive mental health education environment,urging students to develop positive traits,enhancing well-being and resilience,and facilitating psychological development.展开更多
Exchanging gifts at the holidays is a tradition that dates back to thousands of years ago.Children are typically excused from buying gifts because they cost money kids may not have.But the truth is that some of the be...Exchanging gifts at the holidays is a tradition that dates back to thousands of years ago.Children are typically excused from buying gifts because they cost money kids may not have.But the truth is that some of the best gifts don't cost anything.If you would like to give meaningful gifts to family or friends at the holidays—without having to spend money—here's how you can get started.展开更多
This study explored how perceived social support(PSS)influences the sense of meaning in life(SML)among rural college students,considering positive coping styles(PCS)as a mediator and psychological resilience(PR)as a m...This study explored how perceived social support(PSS)influences the sense of meaning in life(SML)among rural college students,considering positive coping styles(PCS)as a mediator and psychological resilience(PR)as a moderator.1444 college students(females;23.55%only child;M_(age)=19.76 years,SD=1.07;76.66%)were recruited from Jilin province in China.The college students self-reported their perceived social support and positive coping styles,psychological resilience,and sense of meaning in life.The results indicated that higher perceived social support predicted higher college students’sense of meaning in life.Perceived social support positively contributes to college students’sense of meaning in life through the mediating role of positive coping styles.Psychological resilience moderates the first path of the indirect association,where the positive effect of perceived social support on positive coping styles is more pronounced in college students with higher psychological resilience compared to those with lower psychological resilience.These align with Social Support Theory and Psychological Resilience Theory.That is,individuals with effective social support systems can enhance their positive coping styles,thereby increasing their sense of meaning in life,while psychological resilience strengthens the positive impact of perceived social support on positive coping styles.These findings offer the evidence for intervening and supporting the development of college students’sense of meaning in life.To enhance rural college students’sense of meaning in life,it is essential to establish a comprehensive social support system,promote the development of positive coping styles,and provide targeted training to strengthen psychological resilience.展开更多
This study,conducted during an internship at the Tumor Hospital of S Province,employs a qualitative research paradigm.The primary research subjects were 11 hospitalized breast cancer patients,with data collected throu...This study,conducted during an internship at the Tumor Hospital of S Province,employs a qualitative research paradigm.The primary research subjects were 11 hospitalized breast cancer patients,with data collected through semi-structured interviews and observation,followed by content analysis.The study aims to explore the disease experiences and life experiences of breast cancer patients,investigating what their illness means to them and whether it has led to a different understanding of the meaning of their lives.The findings reveal that the reconstruction of life meaning among breast cancer patients manifests as“new perceptions of existence,new attitudes toward life,and new life goals.”展开更多
This study examined how psychological meaningfulness moderates job complexity and work-family conflict in Nigerian secondary school teachers.This study included 1694 teachers from 17 Nigerian secondary schools(female=6...This study examined how psychological meaningfulness moderates job complexity and work-family conflict in Nigerian secondary school teachers.This study included 1694 teachers from 17 Nigerian secondary schools(female=69.54%,mean age=33.19,SD=6.44 years).The participants completed the Work-family Conflict Scale,Job Complexity Scale,and Psychological Meaningfulness Scale.Study design was cross-sectional.Hayes PROCESS macro analysis results indicate a higher work-family conflict with job complexity among the secondary school teachers.While psychological meaningfulness was not associated with work-family conflict,it moderated the link between job complexity and work-family conflict in secondary school teachers such that a meaningful work endorsement is associated with lower employee’s work-life conflict.Thesefindings point to the importance of job functions to quality of family life.The studyfindings also suggest a need for supporting psychological meaningfulness for healthy work related quality of family life based on balancing work and family role demands.展开更多
Background:With the rapid aging of China’s population and the increasing prevalence of comorbidities in the elderly,psychological crises have become more common.This study aims to investigate the present status of ps...Background:With the rapid aging of China’s population and the increasing prevalence of comorbidities in the elderly,psychological crises have become more common.This study aims to investigate the present status of psychological vulnerability,aging attitudes,and life meaning in elderly patients with comorbidities.Methods:A total of 685 elderly inpatients and outpatients at Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University between July and December 2022 were selected using the simple random sampling method.Social demographic data were collected,and the Attitudes to aging Questionnaire(AAQ),the Chinese Life Meaning Questionnaire(C-MLQ),and the Psychological Vulnerability Scale(C-PVS)were used for the analysis.A total of 685 questionnaires were received,and 602 valid questionnaires were collected,with an effective rate of 87.88%.Data analysis was performed using SPSS V25.0 and AMOS V24.0.Results:The total scores of psychological vulnerability,aging attitudes,and life meaning were 69.4±12.8,80.2±13.5 and 39.2±8.3,respectively.The psychological vulnerability was significantly negatively correlated with life meaning and aging attitudes(r=-0.351,-0.264;p<0.01).There was a significant positive correlation between aging attitudes and life meaning(r=0.515;p<0.01).Life meaning played a partial mediating role between psychological vulnerability and aging attitudes(β=3.070,p<0.05).Conclusion:This study found that the psychological vulnerability in elderly patients with comorbidities was at the lower level,which was related to the elderly patients’aging attitudes and their current status of life meaning.The level of psychological vulnerability in elderly patients with senile-related comorbidities needs to be further improved.Medical workers should pay attention to the psychological vulnerability of elderly patients and improve the identification of psychological crises of such patients.展开更多
Lexical meaning mainly includes rational meaning,grammatical meaning,and coloring meaning.Mastering the coloring meaning of vocabulary is of great significance for foreign students to use Chinese vocabulary correctly....Lexical meaning mainly includes rational meaning,grammatical meaning,and coloring meaning.Mastering the coloring meaning of vocabulary is of great significance for foreign students to use Chinese vocabulary correctly.This study mainly examines the psychological mechanism of Chinese second language learners mastering the coloring meaning of words,examines the psychological characteristics of students mastering the color meaning of words from the perspectives of second language learning theory and cognitive theory,establishes a cognitive schema for coloring meaning learning,and proposes corresponding learning models and teaching strategies.展开更多
Objective:To explore the meaning of care experienced by people with blindness in hospitals.Methods:Interpretive phenomenology along with the 6-step method of van Manen was used to conduct the study.Using purposeful sa...Objective:To explore the meaning of care experienced by people with blindness in hospitals.Methods:Interpretive phenomenology along with the 6-step method of van Manen was used to conduct the study.Using purposeful sampling,15 people with legal blindness were interviewed.Thematic analysis was used to isolate the meaning of care.Results:Five themes emerged:(a)nurses in the eyes of patients with blindness;(b)negligence in the caring moments;(c)being cared for in ambiguity;(d)Uncoordinated care;and(e)Psychological discomfor t.These sub-themes were condensed into an overarching theme titled as“marginalized patients inside the stereotypical healthcare system.”Conclusions:Lived experiences of patients with blindness revealed that hospitals provide stereotypic or inappropriate care for this minority group in society.Health professionals par ticularly nurses should be skilled to provide person-centered and coordinated care for patients with blindness.展开更多
Cognitive models must be able to adapt the students learning behaviors dynamically.In our point of view,the processes of learning and understanding are,in nature,the procedure that gains the meaning of the object to b...Cognitive models must be able to adapt the students learning behaviors dynamically.In our point of view,the processes of learning and understanding are,in nature,the procedure that gains the meaning of the object to be learned.So,ICAI cognitive models should reflect the meaning structure of the domain knowledge in students mind.According to this view,we developed the meaning theory of Ludwig Wittgenstein,and proposed the concept of meaning conjoinism.On the basis of the meaning conjoinism we proposed a meaning oriented ICAI cognitive model and its corresponding teaching tactics.Furthermore,we developed an ICAI system named Thinking and the efficiency of our proposal has been demonstrated.展开更多
Giora proposed that general principle of salience： salient comprehension of figurative and meanings are processed first and literal language be governed by a more meaning salience determines the type of processing in...Giora proposed that general principle of salience： salient comprehension of figurative and meanings are processed first and literal language be governed by a more meaning salience determines the type of processing invoked. According to the Graded Salience Hypothesis, processing familiar metaphors should involve the activation of both their metaphoric and literal meanings, regardless of the type of context in which they are embedded. Processing less familiar metaphors should activate the literal meaning in both types of contexts; however, in the literally biased context, it should be the only one activated. Processing familiar idioms in context biased towards the idiomatic meaning should evoke their figurative meaning almost exclusively, because their figurative meaning is much more salient than their literal meaning. However, processing less familiar idioms in an idiomatic context should activate both their literal and idiomatic meanings because both meanings enjoy similar salience status.展开更多
The essence of prose lies in expressing meaning and feeling of the prose, describing things and reasoning in real,plain and direct way, which is referred as its natural character. What the prose requires is to strive ...The essence of prose lies in expressing meaning and feeling of the prose, describing things and reasoning in real,plain and direct way, which is referred as its natural character. What the prose requires is to strive to make equivalence in the meaning, forms, taste, style and other aspects with the original text. What the prose express is not only the thematic meaning but also the stylistic meaning, in other words, the meaning that was contained in the content and forms. Hilaire Belloc, a famous prolific writer and historian, have formulated the six principles in translation of prose, in which he believes that the essence of translating is the resurrection of an alien thing in a native body.展开更多
Interpersonal function is one of the three metafunctions of language. This paper investigates the interpersonal meanings in Chinese cosmetic advertising discourse from mood, modality and appraise the three aspects. Ba...Interpersonal function is one of the three metafunctions of language. This paper investigates the interpersonal meanings in Chinese cosmetic advertising discourse from mood, modality and appraise the three aspects. Based on an exploratory study of data of six typical Chinese cosmetic advertising discourses, the paper claims that the distribution of mood and modality has close link with the interpersonal meaning in advertising. The Functional Grammar and Appraisal System help to reveal the interpersonal meanings of the discourse concerned.展开更多
A Rose for Emily is one of William Faulkner's most famous short stories.Through the representing of patriarchy influence on Emily,Faulkner shows his readers Emily's tragic life.From the diverse meanings of the...A Rose for Emily is one of William Faulkner's most famous short stories.Through the representing of patriarchy influence on Emily,Faulkner shows his readers Emily's tragic life.From the diverse meanings of the "Rose" to the debated themes,this story has been discussed before.This paper tries to analyze the three stages of Emily's struggle for love in order to represent the symbolism of the "Rose" from the perspective of feminism.It also represents the root of Emily's tragedy and the sympathy for the tragic fate of the Southern women.展开更多
This paper discusses a neglected theme in Wittgenstein＇s writings on meaning and psychology from the early 1930s until 1949. Throughout this period Wittgenstein deals with aspects of meaning of words and pictures tha...This paper discusses a neglected theme in Wittgenstein＇s writings on meaning and psychology from the early 1930s until 1949. Throughout this period Wittgenstein deals with aspects of meaning of words and pictures that cannot be accounted for in dispositional terms but have to be related to experience and perception. Wittgenstein＇s reading of William James, I argue, has sharpened his eye for the many pitfalls in coming to terms with this experiential notion of meaning. James＇s treatment of experiences of meaning succumbs to the temptation to postulate ~~meaning-bodies,＂ bearers of meaning apart from the way and context in which we use the particular words. I argue that the conflation of what Wittgenstein calls the transitive and intransitive use of words is at the root of postulating meaning-bodies. I also argue that contemporary treatments of experiences of meaning are similarly vulnerable to James＇s confusion.展开更多
According to J.L.Austin and J.R.Searle Speech Act Theory,many actions can actually be performed with words that is to say an important part of the meaning of an utterance is what that utterance does.Language is not on...According to J.L.Austin and J.R.Searle Speech Act Theory,many actions can actually be performed with words that is to say an important part of the meaning of an utterance is what that utterance does.Language is not only used to inform or describe things,it is often used to "do things".The utterances are of three kinds of acts:Locutionary Act,Illocutionary Act,and Perlocutionary Act which are performed simultaneously.Through the study,we see that speech can be far beyond the level of language system.展开更多
Language is the vehicle of culture, vocabulary is the most active part of a language. This article compares and analyses the relationship of cultural context and the associative meaning of words in three aspects—asso...Language is the vehicle of culture, vocabulary is the most active part of a language. This article compares and analyses the relationship of cultural context and the associative meaning of words in three aspects—associative meaning overlap, associative meaning mismatch and associative meaning gap, revealing its importance in the cross-cultural communication.展开更多
美国著名翻译理论家尤金·奈达说 :“翻译即译意 (Translating m eans translating m eaning)。”就实质而言 ,翻译即译意。就是把一种语言表达的意义用另一种语言表达出来。翻译分理解与表达两个步骤。理解是翻译的基础 ,表达直接...美国著名翻译理论家尤金·奈达说 :“翻译即译意 (Translating m eans translating m eaning)。”就实质而言 ,翻译即译意。就是把一种语言表达的意义用另一种语言表达出来。翻译分理解与表达两个步骤。理解是翻译的基础 ,表达直接决定译文的成败与优劣 。展开更多
Colors are endowed into many different associative meanings by different peoples and countries under the various cultural backgrounds and people make it express testimonial and depreciated meaning. There is not only t...Colors are endowed into many different associative meanings by different peoples and countries under the various cultural backgrounds and people make it express testimonial and depreciated meaning. There is not only the same aspect, but also the differences. Moreover, some factors such as geographical environment, public sentiment custom, thinking mode, religious belief, and national psychology also influence it. Each kind of color is regarded the difference for every nation's person. This article analyzes and investigates the associative meaning of the color in the Chinese and English cultures. And then it will let the reader learn well and more the associative meaning under the different cultural background.展开更多
This paper interprets the connotation,denotation and the symbolic meaning of SEVEN from the perspective of semiotics.The number SEVEN means samsara,destiny,reincarnation,the ending and a brand new beginning,satisfacti...This paper interprets the connotation,denotation and the symbolic meaning of SEVEN from the perspective of semiotics.The number SEVEN means samsara,destiny,reincarnation,the ending and a brand new beginning,satisfaction after a lot of suffering in the East.While,in the West,besides these,it refers to the magic and holy power of the God,mystery,completeness and perfection,occult,happiness and luck.展开更多
Meaning is a central topic in semantics,but it exists in context.Context plays an important role in interpreting word meaning. It will be analyzed as follows:(1) Context determines the referents of deictic words;(2) C...Meaning is a central topic in semantics,but it exists in context.Context plays an important role in interpreting word meaning. It will be analyzed as follows:(1) Context determines the referents of deictic words;(2) Context eliminates word ambiguity;(3) Context provides clues for interference of word meaning.展开更多
基金supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,and the Research Funds of Civil Aviation University of China,No.3122024012.
文摘This study investigated the relationship between college students’awe and depression,along with the mediating roles of future self-continuity and presence of meaning.891 Chinese college students(570 female;mean age 18.59;SD 1.34)from one university completed four surveys:Dispositional Awe Subscale,Future self-continuity Scale,Meaning in Life Scale and Depression Scale.Using structural equation modelling and the bootstrap method,the results delineated that awe negatively related to depression,and future self-continuity and presence of meaning had a serial mediation effect,reducing depression.The study implies educational institutions should foster a positive mental health education environment,urging students to develop positive traits,enhancing well-being and resilience,and facilitating psychological development.
文摘Exchanging gifts at the holidays is a tradition that dates back to thousands of years ago.Children are typically excused from buying gifts because they cost money kids may not have.But the truth is that some of the best gifts don't cost anything.If you would like to give meaningful gifts to family or friends at the holidays—without having to spend money—here's how you can get started.
文摘This study explored how perceived social support(PSS)influences the sense of meaning in life(SML)among rural college students,considering positive coping styles(PCS)as a mediator and psychological resilience(PR)as a moderator.1444 college students(females;23.55%only child;M_(age)=19.76 years,SD=1.07;76.66%)were recruited from Jilin province in China.The college students self-reported their perceived social support and positive coping styles,psychological resilience,and sense of meaning in life.The results indicated that higher perceived social support predicted higher college students’sense of meaning in life.Perceived social support positively contributes to college students’sense of meaning in life through the mediating role of positive coping styles.Psychological resilience moderates the first path of the indirect association,where the positive effect of perceived social support on positive coping styles is more pronounced in college students with higher psychological resilience compared to those with lower psychological resilience.These align with Social Support Theory and Psychological Resilience Theory.That is,individuals with effective social support systems can enhance their positive coping styles,thereby increasing their sense of meaning in life,while psychological resilience strengthens the positive impact of perceived social support on positive coping styles.These findings offer the evidence for intervening and supporting the development of college students’sense of meaning in life.To enhance rural college students’sense of meaning in life,it is essential to establish a comprehensive social support system,promote the development of positive coping styles,and provide targeted training to strengthen psychological resilience.
基金Lingnan Normal University and College of Education’s university-level course-based ideological and political education demonstration project,“Course-Based Ideological and Political Education Demonstration Course for‘Women’s Social Work’”(Project No.:LSSZ202507)Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program project,“Sharing a Room,Healing Together:Leading the Way in‘Three-Shared,One-Community’Services for Patients’Family Members”(Project No.:X202410579028)。
文摘This study,conducted during an internship at the Tumor Hospital of S Province,employs a qualitative research paradigm.The primary research subjects were 11 hospitalized breast cancer patients,with data collected through semi-structured interviews and observation,followed by content analysis.The study aims to explore the disease experiences and life experiences of breast cancer patients,investigating what their illness means to them and whether it has led to a different understanding of the meaning of their lives.The findings reveal that the reconstruction of life meaning among breast cancer patients manifests as“new perceptions of existence,new attitudes toward life,and new life goals.”
文摘This study examined how psychological meaningfulness moderates job complexity and work-family conflict in Nigerian secondary school teachers.This study included 1694 teachers from 17 Nigerian secondary schools(female=69.54%,mean age=33.19,SD=6.44 years).The participants completed the Work-family Conflict Scale,Job Complexity Scale,and Psychological Meaningfulness Scale.Study design was cross-sectional.Hayes PROCESS macro analysis results indicate a higher work-family conflict with job complexity among the secondary school teachers.While psychological meaningfulness was not associated with work-family conflict,it moderated the link between job complexity and work-family conflict in secondary school teachers such that a meaningful work endorsement is associated with lower employee’s work-life conflict.Thesefindings point to the importance of job functions to quality of family life.The studyfindings also suggest a need for supporting psychological meaningfulness for healthy work related quality of family life based on balancing work and family role demands.
基金2023 Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory Open Project-Nursing Special Project:2023KFH017Current Status Survey and Interventional Research on Alexithymia in Elderly Cancer Patients(Chaired by Lili Zhang)+3 种基金Wuhan University Clinical Nursing Special Research Cultivation Fund Project:LCHL202307Constructing a Long-Term Care Model Based on Narrative Transport Model to Identify and Reduce the Vulnerability of Psychological Crises in Elderly Patients with Comorbidities(Chaired by Lili Zhang)2022 Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory Open Project-Nursing Special Project:2022KFH030Empirical Study on the Construction and Application of a Frailty Risk Warning Model for Hospitalized Elderly Patients(Chaired by Jiaojiao Wu).
文摘Background:With the rapid aging of China’s population and the increasing prevalence of comorbidities in the elderly,psychological crises have become more common.This study aims to investigate the present status of psychological vulnerability,aging attitudes,and life meaning in elderly patients with comorbidities.Methods:A total of 685 elderly inpatients and outpatients at Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University between July and December 2022 were selected using the simple random sampling method.Social demographic data were collected,and the Attitudes to aging Questionnaire(AAQ),the Chinese Life Meaning Questionnaire(C-MLQ),and the Psychological Vulnerability Scale(C-PVS)were used for the analysis.A total of 685 questionnaires were received,and 602 valid questionnaires were collected,with an effective rate of 87.88%.Data analysis was performed using SPSS V25.0 and AMOS V24.0.Results:The total scores of psychological vulnerability,aging attitudes,and life meaning were 69.4±12.8,80.2±13.5 and 39.2±8.3,respectively.The psychological vulnerability was significantly negatively correlated with life meaning and aging attitudes(r=-0.351,-0.264;p<0.01).There was a significant positive correlation between aging attitudes and life meaning(r=0.515;p<0.01).Life meaning played a partial mediating role between psychological vulnerability and aging attitudes(β=3.070,p<0.05).Conclusion:This study found that the psychological vulnerability in elderly patients with comorbidities was at the lower level,which was related to the elderly patients’aging attitudes and their current status of life meaning.The level of psychological vulnerability in elderly patients with senile-related comorbidities needs to be further improved.Medical workers should pay attention to the psychological vulnerability of elderly patients and improve the identification of psychological crises of such patients.
文摘Lexical meaning mainly includes rational meaning,grammatical meaning,and coloring meaning.Mastering the coloring meaning of vocabulary is of great significance for foreign students to use Chinese vocabulary correctly.This study mainly examines the psychological mechanism of Chinese second language learners mastering the coloring meaning of words,examines the psychological characteristics of students mastering the color meaning of words from the perspectives of second language learning theory and cognitive theory,establishes a cognitive schema for coloring meaning learning,and proposes corresponding learning models and teaching strategies.
基金supported by Ardabil University of Medical Sciences(No.9319.1393-11-21)。
文摘Objective:To explore the meaning of care experienced by people with blindness in hospitals.Methods:Interpretive phenomenology along with the 6-step method of van Manen was used to conduct the study.Using purposeful sampling,15 people with legal blindness were interviewed.Thematic analysis was used to isolate the meaning of care.Results:Five themes emerged:(a)nurses in the eyes of patients with blindness;(b)negligence in the caring moments;(c)being cared for in ambiguity;(d)Uncoordinated care;and(e)Psychological discomfor t.These sub-themes were condensed into an overarching theme titled as“marginalized patients inside the stereotypical healthcare system.”Conclusions:Lived experiences of patients with blindness revealed that hospitals provide stereotypic or inappropriate care for this minority group in society.Health professionals par ticularly nurses should be skilled to provide person-centered and coordinated care for patients with blindness.
文摘Cognitive models must be able to adapt the students learning behaviors dynamically.In our point of view,the processes of learning and understanding are,in nature,the procedure that gains the meaning of the object to be learned.So,ICAI cognitive models should reflect the meaning structure of the domain knowledge in students mind.According to this view,we developed the meaning theory of Ludwig Wittgenstein,and proposed the concept of meaning conjoinism.On the basis of the meaning conjoinism we proposed a meaning oriented ICAI cognitive model and its corresponding teaching tactics.Furthermore,we developed an ICAI system named Thinking and the efficiency of our proposal has been demonstrated.
文摘Giora proposed that general principle of salience： salient comprehension of figurative and meanings are processed first and literal language be governed by a more meaning salience determines the type of processing invoked. According to the Graded Salience Hypothesis, processing familiar metaphors should involve the activation of both their metaphoric and literal meanings, regardless of the type of context in which they are embedded. Processing less familiar metaphors should activate the literal meaning in both types of contexts; however, in the literally biased context, it should be the only one activated. Processing familiar idioms in context biased towards the idiomatic meaning should evoke their figurative meaning almost exclusively, because their figurative meaning is much more salient than their literal meaning. However, processing less familiar idioms in an idiomatic context should activate both their literal and idiomatic meanings because both meanings enjoy similar salience status.
文摘The essence of prose lies in expressing meaning and feeling of the prose, describing things and reasoning in real,plain and direct way, which is referred as its natural character. What the prose requires is to strive to make equivalence in the meaning, forms, taste, style and other aspects with the original text. What the prose express is not only the thematic meaning but also the stylistic meaning, in other words, the meaning that was contained in the content and forms. Hilaire Belloc, a famous prolific writer and historian, have formulated the six principles in translation of prose, in which he believes that the essence of translating is the resurrection of an alien thing in a native body.
文摘Interpersonal function is one of the three metafunctions of language. This paper investigates the interpersonal meanings in Chinese cosmetic advertising discourse from mood, modality and appraise the three aspects. Based on an exploratory study of data of six typical Chinese cosmetic advertising discourses, the paper claims that the distribution of mood and modality has close link with the interpersonal meaning in advertising. The Functional Grammar and Appraisal System help to reveal the interpersonal meanings of the discourse concerned.
文摘A Rose for Emily is one of William Faulkner's most famous short stories.Through the representing of patriarchy influence on Emily,Faulkner shows his readers Emily's tragic life.From the diverse meanings of the "Rose" to the debated themes,this story has been discussed before.This paper tries to analyze the three stages of Emily's struggle for love in order to represent the symbolism of the "Rose" from the perspective of feminism.It also represents the root of Emily's tragedy and the sympathy for the tragic fate of the Southern women.
文摘This paper discusses a neglected theme in Wittgenstein＇s writings on meaning and psychology from the early 1930s until 1949. Throughout this period Wittgenstein deals with aspects of meaning of words and pictures that cannot be accounted for in dispositional terms but have to be related to experience and perception. Wittgenstein＇s reading of William James, I argue, has sharpened his eye for the many pitfalls in coming to terms with this experiential notion of meaning. James＇s treatment of experiences of meaning succumbs to the temptation to postulate ~~meaning-bodies,＂ bearers of meaning apart from the way and context in which we use the particular words. I argue that the conflation of what Wittgenstein calls the transitive and intransitive use of words is at the root of postulating meaning-bodies. I also argue that contemporary treatments of experiences of meaning are similarly vulnerable to James＇s confusion.
文摘According to J.L.Austin and J.R.Searle Speech Act Theory,many actions can actually be performed with words that is to say an important part of the meaning of an utterance is what that utterance does.Language is not only used to inform or describe things,it is often used to "do things".The utterances are of three kinds of acts:Locutionary Act,Illocutionary Act,and Perlocutionary Act which are performed simultaneously.Through the study,we see that speech can be far beyond the level of language system.
文摘Language is the vehicle of culture, vocabulary is the most active part of a language. This article compares and analyses the relationship of cultural context and the associative meaning of words in three aspects—associative meaning overlap, associative meaning mismatch and associative meaning gap, revealing its importance in the cross-cultural communication.
文摘Colors are endowed into many different associative meanings by different peoples and countries under the various cultural backgrounds and people make it express testimonial and depreciated meaning. There is not only the same aspect, but also the differences. Moreover, some factors such as geographical environment, public sentiment custom, thinking mode, religious belief, and national psychology also influence it. Each kind of color is regarded the difference for every nation's person. This article analyzes and investigates the associative meaning of the color in the Chinese and English cultures. And then it will let the reader learn well and more the associative meaning under the different cultural background.
文摘This paper interprets the connotation,denotation and the symbolic meaning of SEVEN from the perspective of semiotics.The number SEVEN means samsara,destiny,reincarnation,the ending and a brand new beginning,satisfaction after a lot of suffering in the East.While,in the West,besides these,it refers to the magic and holy power of the God,mystery,completeness and perfection,occult,happiness and luck.
文摘Meaning is a central topic in semantics,but it exists in context.Context plays an important role in interpreting word meaning. It will be analyzed as follows:(1) Context determines the referents of deictic words;(2) Context eliminates word ambiguity;(3) Context provides clues for interference of word meaning.
