Introduction: The Symposium and Its Authors

Abstract

This symposium addresses the question “Has public administration grown up?” as a provocative vehicle for free-ranging inquiry into the state of the field. Its articles originated from a panel of the same name held at the 2003 national conference of the American Society for Public Administration. The authors, each of whom make a quite different response, consist of the panel's original five members plus four participants from the audience who later contributed their ideas in written form.     

Boundary riding: Cross‐cultural analysis,national cinema and genre

This paper addresses the relation between rhetoric and politics through a reading of the term ‘queer’ as it circulated in three different communities in the 1990s: the activist group Queer Nation; the (American) field of study now known as Queer Theory; and an underground queer‐punk press (fanzines'). Reflection on the specific uses of the term ‘queer’ indicates widely divergent and conflicting meaning‐making processes. For some people, the term ‘queer’ signifies all people outside of normative heterosexuality, while for others, the term only refers to lesbians and gay men. Within both Queer Nation and Queer Theory, a metaphorical association is established among ‘queers’ and ‘lesbian/gays’. By contrast, queer‐punks employ the term catachrestically, as a metaphor for which no literal referent exists. Rhetorical theory can clarify these different employments of the same term. Theories of metaphor and catachresis help us to understand how relations of association are established among queers and lesbian/gays, and how particular rhetorical strategies relate to specific political agendas.     

Problematizing the healing metaphor of restorative justice

Beginning with the premise that our linguistic and cognitive systems are fundamentally metaphorical in nature, this study seeks to explore the predominant metaphor of restorative justice (RJ), the metaphor of healing. Metaphor choice is important, particularly in conflict situations, as they encourage and discourage particular behaviors, attitudes, and perceptions. The conceptualization of RJ as a healing process (where participants heal the wounds caused by offending behaviors) is pervasive and integrated into the academic literature. Perhaps either due to its banality or its seeming beneficiality, we assert that the healing metaphor has not received sufficiently critical reflection. We examined primary metaphor use among RJ facilitators using 319 single-spaced pages of interview data gathered from 20 RJ facilitators. Our results suggest that the healing metaphor is potentially problematic for victims, offenders, and facilitators. We suggest an alternative, garden metaphor, for consideration as an alternative.     

东北文化的肌肤——从历史及认知角度看东北方言

东北方言是东北文化的重要组成部分。东北方言的历史成因是由当地各民族语言文化相互融合而产生的。同时东北方言深受俄、日、韩等周边国家语言和文化的影响,其中日本语言文化对东北方言的影响最大。东北方言的形成也有其认知动因,隐含型东北方言和半隐含型东北方言是通过人类的隐喻和转喻思维得以体现。字面型东北方言也并非其构成因子字面意义的简单相加,其中蕴涵了人类的认知加工。东北方言多义性符合家族相似理论。     

激进与保守——汉语语法研究现状的哲学思考

目前的汉语语法研究存在着激进与保守两种倾向,这主要体现于古今汉语的语法研究中。只有打通古今,以汉语传统语法研究方法为根基,相互借鉴,才会走出一条适合汉语语法特性的研究新路子,建立中国特色的语法理论,让中国的语言理论走向世界,才不会成为一句空话。     

论韩礼德的语法比喻理论

根据韩礼德的理论,语言由三元功能组成,即概念性功能、人际关系性功能和文本性功能。与传统的词汇比喻相对应,语法比喻就上述三种功能都单独发挥作用。本文围绕语法比喻的类型、与谈话方式、文本组织和语言类型的关系等几个方面进行了阐述。     

XCMG： Globalizing China＇s Manufacturing Industry

正SUCCESS in the manufacturing industry demands as much hard work as farmers need to grow rice–they sow the seeds one by one and reap the harvest one by one.Despite its cautionary tone,this well-known metaphor in industry circles has never shaken the resolve of the managers of Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group(XCMG),a respected pioneer of China’s manufacturing industry.Wang Min,chairman of XCMG,said that China’s equipment manufacturing industry would not be as successful as it is today without the people at its helm who stick to     

流体隐喻思维的日汉对比研究

隐喻是人类认识、加工客观世界的一种基本模式。通过隐喻的跨语言对比研究能揭示出不同语言理解事物时不同的思维方式。以日语「流れ/流れる」的用法为例,从"隐喻广度"和"隐喻深度"两个维度,研究、透视日语和汉语在名词概念化方式上的差异,会发现:虽然汉语也能够通过流体思维对"时间"等名词进行表征,但在日语里这种思维模式是一种基本认知模式,因此,日语对"政治""故事""比赛""沉默"等抽象名词的理解均建基于流体隐喻思维。通过跨语言对比不难发现,借助流体隐喻思维对外部事物进行理解是日语的一大显著特征。     

“глубокий”和“深”搭配域的认知分析

我们通过对"глубокий"和"深"搭配域的分析,发现二者在语义上具有相同的隐喻模式:空间→时间→性质。其搭配域既体现了语际共性,也反映了语际差异。对共同搭配域做认知上的分析后得出结论:汉语和俄语单式形容词搭配域的宽窄和其句法功能有密切关系。