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2021 Vol. 6, No. 6
Published: 2021-11-10
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How to Build a Resource System of International Education of Chinese Language
Zhao Jinming
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Interdisciplinary Talk: Drama Performer on Language and Language Use
Zhang Kaili, Liu Jihong, Sun Xing, Feng Yuanzheng
My Views on Sound Modulation in Recitation as an Art /
Zhang Kaili
Play Actors Must Take Pains to Do Meticulous Work in Enhancing the Fascination of Their Lines /
Liu Jihong
Theatrical Speech Should Be the Sublimation and Refinement of Daily Language /
Sun Xing
A Brief Discussion on the Language Use for Drama Performance and Training Practice /
Feng Yuanzheng
2021 Vol. 6 (6): 5-10 [
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Introduction: The Development and Innovation for the Study of Language and Health
Huang Lihe
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The Relationship between Language and Health: Index, Medium, and Resource
Zhou Deyu and Zhang Wei
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210601
With continuous improvement of people’s living conditions in modern societies, health-related issues have become one of the major concerns attracting increasing attention. Language, as the major vehicle for human communication, is closely related to and plays important roles in health-related activities. Many scholars from different disciplines have examined the relationship between language and health from different perspectives. Drawing on previous studies and adopting a linguistic perspective, we argue that language takes on multiple roles, namely as an index, medium, and resource, in its relation to health. First, an individual’s language behavior may be seen as indexical and constitutive of certain aspects of one’s state of health. Second, language serves as an important medium through which to disseminate health information and implement health activities. Third, language also provides useful resources to realize health goals for the individual, the community, and the nation. By exploring the relationship between language and health, we hope to broaden the vision for linguistic research on health and health-related activities.
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A Contrastive Study of Other-Initiated Self-Repair Strategies between Autistic Children and Normal Children
Ma Bosen, Ni Wenjun and Zeng Xiaorong
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210602
Drawing upon empirical data obtained from oral occurrence of 30 children, this paper attempts to analyze the differences of other-initiated self-repair strategies between Chinese children with high-functioning autism (HFA) and those with typical development (TD) aged 6–7. The findings show that in terms of trouble source, HFA children have produced noticeably more problems of reference and problems of expectation or acceptability than TD children, and the overall repair success rate is lower than that of TD counterparts. In terms of different types of trouble sources produced by children, there are significant differences in the choice of adults’ other-initiated strategies. When it comes to different degrees of adults’ other-initiations, there are significant differences in the choice of children’s self-repair strategies. Based on the findings as stated above, the study suggests that the interlocutors should create a more shared communicational context and take the initiative to identify different types of trouble sources during the conversation with HFA children. Moreover, the interlocutors should employ appropriate initiation strategies to improve HFA children’s conversation repair competence.
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Pragmatic Compensation for the Elders with Cognitive Impairment: A Speech Act Perspective
Huang Lihe, Yang Jingjing and Liu Zhuoya
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210603
With the emergence of many aging societies around the world, the past decades have witnessed an increasing attention to gerontolinguistics. This study focuses on pragmatic compensation for the elders with cognitive impairment. Much research has shown that an individual’s cognitive impairment is reflected in speech act performance in one’s pragmatic communication. In this sense, the speech act can serve as an essential indicator for evaluating one’s pragmatic competence and judging one’s pragmatic disorders. Taking speech act as the basic unit and integrating both interlocutors’ and contextual factors, this study establishes a multimodal analytical framework of the relationship between cognitive health and speech acts of the elders. Through a case analysis, this study finds that pragmatic disorders for the elders with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are manifested in the following aspects when performing speech acts: interdependence, essential content, emotional state, etc. More repetition, inconsistency, and hand movements indicate a damage to the language system of this group. Therefore, both interpersonal and intrapersonal compensatory adaptation operates in the interaction of the elders with AD. With China’s rapid expansion of aging population, it is hoped that this study can draw more scholars’ attention to gerontolinguistics and more efforts can be devoted to the study and care of the elderly people in China.
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Developing a Speech Communication Ability Evaluation System for Screening Language Disorders in Chinese-Speaking Children
Lu Shuo, Qiu Guoxin, Qian Siyu and Gao Leyan
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210604
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语言是人类必不可少的沟通交流工具,也是儿童发育过程中需要习得的核心能力。儿童在母语习得过程中常常会发生语言理解、加工、整合、产出的水平低于同龄儿童的现象,如发音困难、发音不准确、词汇匮乏、话语过于简单、不愿意说话等等,即出现儿童语言障碍的现象。据统计,6%~8%的学前儿童无法达到预期的语言发展目标(Tomblin et al. 1997;Collisson et al. 2016;Norbury et al. 2016)。本研究采用广义上的儿童语言障碍概念,既包括由于听力或其他感官损伤、神经功能发育异常等疾病引起的语言障碍,也包括原发性而非其他疾病衍生的发展性语言障碍(Developmental Language Disorder,DLD)。
Language is an indispensable communication tool for human beings, and language ability is an essential skill that children must acquire in their development. Oriented to the language disorders in Chinese-speaking children, an evaluation system has been developed by the Neurolinguistics teaching laboratory at Sun Yat-sen University to measure Chinese children’s speech communication ability and screen language-related disabilities. Using a fixed procedure as a guide, the system can collect children’s speech communication data in a very short time. Based on this evaluation paradigm, a speech corpus of Chinese-speaking children for language disorder screening was established, and up to now data of 996 children aged between 2-14 have been collected. The data are evaluated from six linguistic aspects (including phonology, productivity, fluency, grammar, semantics, and logic) with 16 indicators recognized by both manual annotation and machine recognition. Currently, the data of 638 Chinese-speaking children have been processed and annotated. Such a corpus can offer an affluent training set for automatic screening of children’s language disorders, and provide resource for studies on language acquisition and language disorders.
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Analysis of Conversational Features in Differential Diagnosis of Epilepsy
Ma Wen and Jin Liri
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210605
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the central nervous system and causes seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations, and sometimes loss of awareness. In clinical diagnosis, a conversation analysis approach to patients’ interaction has proved to be an effective method to diagnose epilepsy. Most typically, the interactional, topical, and linguistic features in patients’ talk are analyzed to help the differentiation of epileptic seizure (ES) and psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES), two types of epilepsy that are difficult to be distinguished in clinical practice. With a conversation analysis of the talks of Chinese patients with ES and PNES, this study shows that the initiative of providing seizure information, the efforts of presentation, and the use of negative expressions in patients’ talk are of great value in differentiating ES from PNES. The study also indicates that conversation analysis has practical and applicational value in medical clinical diagnosis, which can provide a reference for differential diagnosis of some neurological diseases through an analysis of doctor-patient interactions in medical history records.
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Clinical Linguistics: A Primer
Louise Cummings
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210606
Clinical linguistics is an important and growing area of language study. Yet, this linguistic discipline has been relatively overlooked in comparison with mainstream branches of linguistics such as syntax and semantics. This paper argues for a greater integration of clinical linguistics within linguistics in general. This integration is warranted, it is argued, on account of the knowledge and methods that clinical linguists share with academics in other areas of linguistics. The paper sets out by discussing a narrow and a broad definition of clinical linguistics before examining key stages in the human communication cycle. This cycle represents the cognitive and linguistic processes involved in the expression and interpretation of utterances. Language and communication disorders are characterized in terms of specific points of breakdown in this cycle. The contribution of each branch of linguistic study—phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse—to an analysis of language disorders is considered. Data from a range of clinical subjects, both children and adults, is used to illustrate the linguistic features of these disorders. The paper concludes with a summary of the main points of the discussion and a preview of a companion article to be published in the
International Journal of Language Studies
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Diverse Views on Language and Health
Ding Hongwei, Wang Nan, Zhang Wei, Ding Yue, Qian Qian, Zheng Xuan, Li Qinghua, Wang Kanliang and Wang Yingxia
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Study of the Language Image of Dialects in Movies and TV Series
Wang Lining and Pan Yingying
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210607
Based on linguistic data selected from 400 movies and TV series, this article attempts to examine types, varieties, and time distribution of dialectal movies and TV series over the last decade or so and analyzes the social variables of 620 dialect users in these movies and TV series. The findings reveal that Cantonese, Southwest Mandarin, Zhongyuan Mandarin, and Northeast Mandarin are more frequently used than others in movies and TV series. These dialects have become important language resources being utilized for literary expression of local characteristics. Since 2016, the number of dialectal movies and TV series has increased significantly, and their social images have been improved, and their economic benefits have been attractive; the socio-economic status of dialect users is embodied in social factors such as “middle-aged”, “male”, “manual worker”, “low literacy”, “rural township” and “comedy”; these factors function as contributors in constructing the current language image of dialects in movies and TV series. The article argues that the creation and dissemination of language image must conform with maintaining the major status of the ‘National Commonly Used Language and Characters’; at the same time, from the perspective of protecting and inheriting dialectal cultures, the language image of dialects in movies and TV series should be prevented from being stereotyped.
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