Throughout Western music history, pre-existing material has long been the aesthetic core of a new composition. Yet there has never been such an epoch as our time in which using pre-existing material, melodic quotation...Throughout Western music history, pre-existing material has long been the aesthetic core of a new composition. Yet there has never been such an epoch as our time in which using pre-existing material, melodic quotation in particular, features so extensively in works of many of the composers. The aim of this paper is to investigate how the use of quoted tunes in a musical piece operates in an interwoven complex where time and space are of the essence. A quote is able to oscillate perpetually between one’s mental worlds of the memorable past and the imaginative present when it is highlighted enough to be recognizable from its surrounding context. Upon interpreting the use of quotation in various contexts, the aesthetic object, I argue, is the shift from original to quoted music, and vice versa. And listeners can respond aesthetically to the quotation itself even without knowledge of its provenance and textual or referential content.展开更多
Although English proverbs and quotations are quite popular with language teachers and learners, and although there are sizeable body of research addressing the various aspects of English proverbs and quotations, their...Although English proverbs and quotations are quite popular with language teachers and learners, and although there are sizeable body of research addressing the various aspects of English proverbs and quotations, their potential motivational values lacks theoretical support to date. This paper intends to explore the theoretical rationales for English proverbs and quotations to be a valuable tool for inspiring teachers and textbooks in Chinese EFL teaching. Based on QIN and WEN＇s conceptual model of motivation （2002） as well as teacher-specific and group-specific motivational theories, it analyzes the potential uses of English proverbs and quotations, with the conclusion that many English proverbs and quotations may serve to be an impetus as well as affective/cognitive mediators in the pre-actional and actional stages of learning, and may help to promote teacher-specific and group-specific motivational dynamics, which in turn benefit student achievement.展开更多
The present paper, in spite of its quite scandalous title, is just a serious reflection, from the inside, on a certain part of the poetry of a contemporary Romanian poet （the author of the paper himself）, in the lin...The present paper, in spite of its quite scandalous title, is just a serious reflection, from the inside, on a certain part of the poetry of a contemporary Romanian poet （the author of the paper himself）, in the line of a tradition starting with Poe＇s Philosophy of Composition （1846）, passing through the avant-garde and ending, for the moment, in Andy Warhol＇s self-promotion. The analysis from the inside and the honest reflection of the interplay between poetry, music, and contemporary popular culture might lead to a better understanding of the poetry made at the end of the 20th century--beginning of the 21 st century. The corpus analyzed is a series of poems written between 1994 and the present day, under the generic title of ditty, published in several books （between which a bilingual pamphlet, Ditties/Cfntecelce）, 1998）, and the paper speaks about their genesis, their poetics, and hopes to help the process of their interpretation, as well as to bring a new interpretation of the poetry/music relationship展开更多
This paper presents the role of E-commerce and E-technology in simplifying operations of preparing quotations and contracts of supporting engineering and scientific laboratories by required equipments and tools at Jor...This paper presents the role of E-commerce and E-technology in simplifying operations of preparing quotations and contracts of supporting engineering and scientific laboratories by required equipments and tools at Jordanian universities.The experimental and practical sides of education in scientific colleges in Jordanian universities is very important,so many quotations and contacts are performed and required each year,and E-commerce also offers the required information and specifications to persons responsible to do such contacts by using Business-to-Consumer,Consumer-to-Consumer or Business-to-Business principles.By searching about such equipments using search engines,many companies present their products and their specifications and give you the opportunity to select the suitable devices and tools depending on their specifications and prices.Case studies are discussed for some devices to show how much E-commerce simplifies this operation.It was found that E-commerce and E-technology reduces both time and efforts required to support both engineering and scientific labs with their needs from equipments,catalogs and tools required to such devices.展开更多
When the umbrellas were held up against the tear gas attack in the protest on September 28, 2014, the hot issue raised by the marathon-like Yellow Umbrella Movement was not only the matter of politics but also a coinc...When the umbrellas were held up against the tear gas attack in the protest on September 28, 2014, the hot issue raised by the marathon-like Yellow Umbrella Movement was not only the matter of politics but also a coincidence created for the Hong Kong locals to face, or to be faced with an already moot cliche： How the Hongkongese can redef＇me and redeem their almost lost socio-cultural identity, particularly under the increasingly hegemonic influences and the socio-cultural invasion of the mainland after the 1997 Handover. My present paper is not intended to discuss the topic of identity on the platform of politics, or the postcolonial studies such as transculturation or cultural hybridty. But instead, I am far more interested in locating such issue on the aesthetic dimension of collective memory, which is revealed in two local contemporary Hong Kong compositions. In the process of shaping and reshaping a form of＂HongKongeseness＂ in which the composers tend to create and the local listeners tend to experience, albeit transient, can appear in every nuance of the sonic metaphor embedded in the pre-existing indigenous tunes of a self-contained compositional work.展开更多
The Holy Bible is one of the greatest books in the world.It is not merely a book of region.It influences the history of the whole world as well as the languages and cultures of both the east and the west.We could find...The Holy Bible is one of the greatest books in the world.It is not merely a book of region.It influences the history of the whole world as well as the languages and cultures of both the east and the west.We could find the traces of the influence of the Bible in the different forms of human heritage.This thesis will try to illustrate these traces with some idioms,proverbsand literary quotations from both theEnglish andthe Chinese literature.展开更多
A little learning is a dangerous thing.Alexander Pope,British poet学问浅薄,如履薄冰。英国诗人蒲柏.A.Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplatesthem.D.Hume,British philosopher事物的美存在于仔细观察者的心目中。
众所周知,写作离不开标点,否则作品不堪设想;有了标点,用错或失当,同样难以想象,或产生歧义,或产生误解。翻译被称为“第二创作”,无疑也不能忽视标点的运用。汉英两种语言中,标点符号种类不同,形式有异。汉语没有撇号(apostrophe)、连...众所周知,写作离不开标点,否则作品不堪设想;有了标点,用错或失当,同样难以想象,或产生歧义,或产生误解。翻译被称为“第二创作”,无疑也不能忽视标点的运用。汉英两种语言中,标点符号种类不同,形式有异。汉语没有撇号(apostrophe)、连字号(hyphen)、缩略词符号(period for abbreviation)等;展开更多
This paper presents an overview of the functional dimensioning （FD） concept apptied to the construction sector. FD addresses the issue of toterance; construction involves severat trades working together white each t...This paper presents an overview of the functional dimensioning （FD） concept apptied to the construction sector. FD addresses the issue of toterance; construction involves severat trades working together white each trade has its own construction toterances. To investigate this probtem, three case studies are investigated. The first one describes a classic case of a window in a bay and the way constructors sotved the resulting toterance problems. The second case study describes the notion of chain dimension. The fast case study presents the notion of wedge as a sotution to sotve probtems related to toterance gap accumulation. This paper is of interest to the scientific community that is working to industrialize the construction sector and atso to architects （in the design）, construction managers （onsfte）, and manufacturers （construction trades）.展开更多
文摘Throughout Western music history, pre-existing material has long been the aesthetic core of a new composition. Yet there has never been such an epoch as our time in which using pre-existing material, melodic quotation in particular, features so extensively in works of many of the composers. The aim of this paper is to investigate how the use of quoted tunes in a musical piece operates in an interwoven complex where time and space are of the essence. A quote is able to oscillate perpetually between one’s mental worlds of the memorable past and the imaginative present when it is highlighted enough to be recognizable from its surrounding context. Upon interpreting the use of quotation in various contexts, the aesthetic object, I argue, is the shift from original to quoted music, and vice versa. And listeners can respond aesthetically to the quotation itself even without knowledge of its provenance and textual or referential content.
文摘Although English proverbs and quotations are quite popular with language teachers and learners, and although there are sizeable body of research addressing the various aspects of English proverbs and quotations, their potential motivational values lacks theoretical support to date. This paper intends to explore the theoretical rationales for English proverbs and quotations to be a valuable tool for inspiring teachers and textbooks in Chinese EFL teaching. Based on QIN and WEN＇s conceptual model of motivation （2002） as well as teacher-specific and group-specific motivational theories, it analyzes the potential uses of English proverbs and quotations, with the conclusion that many English proverbs and quotations may serve to be an impetus as well as affective/cognitive mediators in the pre-actional and actional stages of learning, and may help to promote teacher-specific and group-specific motivational dynamics, which in turn benefit student achievement.
文摘The present paper, in spite of its quite scandalous title, is just a serious reflection, from the inside, on a certain part of the poetry of a contemporary Romanian poet （the author of the paper himself）, in the line of a tradition starting with Poe＇s Philosophy of Composition （1846）, passing through the avant-garde and ending, for the moment, in Andy Warhol＇s self-promotion. The analysis from the inside and the honest reflection of the interplay between poetry, music, and contemporary popular culture might lead to a better understanding of the poetry made at the end of the 20th century--beginning of the 21 st century. The corpus analyzed is a series of poems written between 1994 and the present day, under the generic title of ditty, published in several books （between which a bilingual pamphlet, Ditties/Cfntecelce）, 1998）, and the paper speaks about their genesis, their poetics, and hopes to help the process of their interpretation, as well as to bring a new interpretation of the poetry/music relationship
文摘This paper presents the role of E-commerce and E-technology in simplifying operations of preparing quotations and contracts of supporting engineering and scientific laboratories by required equipments and tools at Jordanian universities.The experimental and practical sides of education in scientific colleges in Jordanian universities is very important,so many quotations and contacts are performed and required each year,and E-commerce also offers the required information and specifications to persons responsible to do such contacts by using Business-to-Consumer,Consumer-to-Consumer or Business-to-Business principles.By searching about such equipments using search engines,many companies present their products and their specifications and give you the opportunity to select the suitable devices and tools depending on their specifications and prices.Case studies are discussed for some devices to show how much E-commerce simplifies this operation.It was found that E-commerce and E-technology reduces both time and efforts required to support both engineering and scientific labs with their needs from equipments,catalogs and tools required to such devices.
文摘When the umbrellas were held up against the tear gas attack in the protest on September 28, 2014, the hot issue raised by the marathon-like Yellow Umbrella Movement was not only the matter of politics but also a coincidence created for the Hong Kong locals to face, or to be faced with an already moot cliche： How the Hongkongese can redef＇me and redeem their almost lost socio-cultural identity, particularly under the increasingly hegemonic influences and the socio-cultural invasion of the mainland after the 1997 Handover. My present paper is not intended to discuss the topic of identity on the platform of politics, or the postcolonial studies such as transculturation or cultural hybridty. But instead, I am far more interested in locating such issue on the aesthetic dimension of collective memory, which is revealed in two local contemporary Hong Kong compositions. In the process of shaping and reshaping a form of＂HongKongeseness＂ in which the composers tend to create and the local listeners tend to experience, albeit transient, can appear in every nuance of the sonic metaphor embedded in the pre-existing indigenous tunes of a self-contained compositional work.
文摘The Holy Bible is one of the greatest books in the world.It is not merely a book of region.It influences the history of the whole world as well as the languages and cultures of both the east and the west.We could find the traces of the influence of the Bible in the different forms of human heritage.This thesis will try to illustrate these traces with some idioms,proverbsand literary quotations from both theEnglish andthe Chinese literature.
文摘A little learning is a dangerous thing.Alexander Pope,British poet学问浅薄,如履薄冰。英国诗人蒲柏.A.Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplatesthem.D.Hume,British philosopher事物的美存在于仔细观察者的心目中。
文摘众所周知,写作离不开标点,否则作品不堪设想;有了标点,用错或失当,同样难以想象,或产生歧义,或产生误解。翻译被称为“第二创作”,无疑也不能忽视标点的运用。汉英两种语言中,标点符号种类不同,形式有异。汉语没有撇号(apostrophe)、连字号(hyphen)、缩略词符号(period for abbreviation)等;
文摘This paper presents an overview of the functional dimensioning （FD） concept apptied to the construction sector. FD addresses the issue of toterance; construction involves severat trades working together white each trade has its own construction toterances. To investigate this probtem, three case studies are investigated. The first one describes a classic case of a window in a bay and the way constructors sotved the resulting toterance problems. The second case study describes the notion of chain dimension. The fast case study presents the notion of wedge as a sotution to sotve probtems related to toterance gap accumulation. This paper is of interest to the scientific community that is working to industrialize the construction sector and atso to architects （in the design）, construction managers （onsfte）, and manufacturers （construction trades）.
