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2019 Vol. 4, No. 5
Published: 2019-09-10

 
1 Field Investigation: The Life Source in Dialectology
Qian Zengyi
2019 Vol. 4 (5): 1-1 [Abstract] ( 0 ) HTML (1 KB)  PDF  (0 KB)  ( 0 )
5 Translation Researchers on Language and Language Use
Xu Jun/Bi Bingbin/Huang Yuanshen
Guide::关于翻译,尤其是文学翻译,我们当下的研究,少有对语言层面的深度探索。我们发现,在现有的中国文学译介研究中,有的关注到中国作家的语言的外译问题。在这一方面,有两种声音曾引起学界的关注甚或讨论。
To Open Up a New Possibility in Fighting and Challenging: On Translation and Languages Issues … Xu Jun
Tentative Comments on Lao She’s Translation and Communication Strategy … Bi Bingbin
Translation as an Art of Language in Nature … Huang Yuanshen
2019 Vol. 4 (5): 5-9 [Abstract] ( 0 ) HTML (1 KB)  PDF  (0 KB)  ( 0 )
10 Introduction for the Special Issue on Gerontolinguistics
Gu Yueguo
2019 Vol. 4 (5): 10-11 [Abstract] ( 0 ) HTML (1 KB)  PDF  (0 KB)  ( 0 )
12 Exploring Gerontolinguistics
Gu Yueguo
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20190501
For a long time gerontology has been preoccupied with such issues as pathology, epistemology, psychology, retirement of the aging population. The well-being of their linguistic life is generally overlooked, except that brain legions have resulted in language impairment and communication failure. This paper, based on a multimodal corpus of aging and language, introduces a four-category sampling scheme of the aging population: (1) superfit group, (2) successful aging group, (3) normal aging group and (4) abnormal aging group. Linguistically, the first two groups maintain their language competence and performance inherited from the middle adulthood; the normal aging group, the largest, however, undergoes a decline curve from the normal (including slips of the tongue), to attrition, to impairment. The abnormal aging, due to brain medical conditions, develops linguistic pathologies, AD patients being typical of the group. The surveyed literature pertinent to the topic includes cognitive neuroscience of aging, pathology of language, and neurobehavior of language and cognition. The central concern of gerontolinguistics, and its methodology are addressed and demonstrated from the corpus data.
2019 Vol. 4 (5): 12-33 [Abstract] ( 0 ) HTML (1 KB)  PDF  (0 KB)  ( 0 )
34 Alzheimer’s Disease: Speech Impairment and Neuropsychological Rating Scale Assessment
Huang Lihe, Wang Jing and Li Yunxia
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20190502
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a commonly seen dementia symptom among elderly people. Previous studies have shown that patients with AD have speech impairments at all linguistic levels such as phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse. The speech impairment features are essential for the cognitive assessment and clinical diagnosis for AD patients. This paper looks into the assessment of language-related items, and examines the specific dimensions and sensitivity of various neuropsychological rating scales, including the screening scales (MMSE, MoCA-B, DRS), the overall cognitive function rating scales (ADAS-cog, SIB, CDR) and language proficiency special scales (BNT, VFT, ABC, WAB). Current Alzheimer’s disease-related scales focus mainly on the semantic and naming (memory) dimensions, while less attention is paid to the phonological, syntactic and pragmatic levels. Most of the tests use induction data, failing to attend to the spontaneous or connected speech and the value of speech features in the pre-screening in disease prevention and control. In order to optimize the relevant scales, it is suggested that researchers should conduct research based on large-scale, multimodal follow-up data, build diachronic natural discourse corpus, and improve the early screening of AD according to the characteristics of speech impairment.
2019 Vol. 4 (5): 34-45 [Abstract] ( 0 ) HTML (1 KB)  PDF  (0 KB)  ( 0 )
46 Selective Deficit in PD Patients’ Processing of Action Semantics: Motor-cognition Dissociation View vs. Motor-cognition Coupling View
Jiang Meng and Tian Zhenling
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20190503
Parkinson’s disease (PD), as a central nervous system disease affecting extrapyramidal system, typically manifests itself in motor deficits, but it is also characterized by a range of language disturbances in terms of articulation, lexicosemantics, syntax, pragmatics, and so on. This article, highlighting PD patients’ selective deficit (SD) in action semantics processing, offers a comprehensive review of the diverse accounts of SD, and attempts to characterize the controversy over the neurofunctional accounts of SD as Motor-cognition Dissociation View vs. Motor-cognition Coupling View. This paper also introduces the Compensatory Pathway Hypothesis and offers comments on future studies in this respect.
2019 Vol. 4 (5): 46-57 [Abstract] ( 0 ) HTML (1 KB)  PDF  (0 KB)  ( 0 )
58 Aging, Disease and Death: A Narrative Medicine Approach
Wen Yingxi and Di Shi
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20190504
Aging, disease and death are three major events in one’s life course. They are so vital in human life that they have given rise to a range of disciplines dedicated to their studies. This paper focuses on the last phase of life course of late adulthood, starting from the diagnosis of incurable cancer to the brain death. In this phase, aging, disease and death, separated indefinitely before, are compressed and experienced intensely, death preoccupying the minds of the patient, the doctor and the relatives. Adopting narrative medicine as its theoretical framework, the paper first reviews the medical doctors’ narration of death, including those who are “the wounded storytellers”. Aged dying cancer sufferers and their relatives are recruited to narrate their experiences. A sample of their narrative discourse is analyzed in terms of biomedical reasoning and narrative reasoning. The differences between the two contribute to the misunderstandings and communication failures between doctors and patients/relatives.
2019 Vol. 4 (5): 58-70 [Abstract] ( 0 ) HTML (1 KB)  PDF  (0 KB)  ( 0 )
71 Diverse Views on Aging Society and Gerontolinguistics
Hou Baicun, Luo Hao, Wang Gangshi, Dai Haoyi, Huang Lihe and Granny (Zhuang Nationality)
2019 Vol. 4 (5): 71-75 [Abstract] ( 0 ) HTML (1 KB)  PDF  (0 KB)  ( 0 )
76 A Review of the Study of Chinese Loanwords in the Past 70 Years: With a Prelude to the Effort in Etymological Inquisition of the Earlier Loanwords
Shi Youwei
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20190505
The 70 years of the study of Chinese loanwords after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) can be divided into two periods, with each being further divided by two stages. The first period is characterized by the emergence of the study of Chinese loanwords as an independent research subject, whereas the second one could be seen as further development and flourishment. The present article first reviews the early exploration of Chinese loanwords in the first half of the 20thcentury as the background for a deep understanding of the history of the study of the subject during the PRC. In the first period (1949–1976), the study of loanwords in Chinese was conducted from the perspectives of culture, standardization, and linguistics. In the second period (1977–2019), inquiries have been made in theory, sources, roles of Japanese loans, English abbreviation loans, and dictionary compilations. In spite of the progress, the study of loanwords in Chinese is still weak as a subdiscipline of linguistics.
2019 Vol. 4 (5): 76-86 [Abstract] ( 0 ) HTML (1 KB)  PDF  (0 KB)  ( 0 )
87 The Coordination and Complementation of Mr. Lü Shuxiang’s “Study of Never Being Late” and “Belief of Making up Lessons”
Lin Youmiao
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20190506
Lü Shuxiang (1904–1998), one of the founders of modern Chinese linguistics, has made outstanding contributions to its construction and development. To a certain extent, his contributions stem from his academic consciousness of “seizing the precious time” and his scientific spirit of “willingness to make up lessons and being good at it”. This article explores not only the origin and implications of Lü’s “Study of Never Being Late” but also the intentions of “Making up Lessons”, thus finding interrelationships between the two issues.
2019 Vol. 4 (5): 87-91 [Abstract] ( 0 ) HTML (1 KB)  PDF  (0 KB)  ( 0 )
92 A Review of the Language and Globalization: An Autoethnographic Approach
Hang Yajing and Zhao Ronghui
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20190507
In responds to the dichotomy of current language issue studies, and draws upon autoethnography as a research paradigm, which emphasizes on researchers’ introspection, this book endeavors to enunciate how language interacts with social variables such as linguistics, education, socio-culture, politics, economy, ideology and how these interactions and intersectionality influence the world’s languages and cultures. Coming from interdisciplinary and multicultural backgrounds, the 15 authors break the usual European-centered pattern of globalization studies, and discuss the expansion of English, identity, and language endangerment from their own experiences, thus presenting to readers holistically how globalization impacts languages and their users and how individuals react to the linguistic globalization in the 21st century.
2019 Vol. 4 (5): 92-96 [Abstract] ( 0 ) HTML (1 KB)  PDF  (0 KB)  ( 0 )
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