Literature and the Teaching of Stylistics： An Investigation Into the Pragmatics of Community Formation in the Educational Context of Namibia

The author＇s paper is an attempt to investigate the success of the pedagogy of stylistics and pedagogical stylistics in the Namibian context. As an applied linguistics course, stylistics is eminently suitable for study and analysis of literature, because it clearly explicates literary effects through linguistic analysis. Many scholars have illustrated the use of stylistics analysis for the purposes of studying literature and teaching it, which is, pedagogical stylistics. However, this paper combines both the study of Stylistics as a discipline, which is the pedagogy of Stylistics, and the use of stylistics for teaching literature in general and poetry in particular. Namibia adopted English as its official language 22 years ago. Since then, both teachers and students have been struggling with the analysis of poetry. This study is an empirical one using qualitative methods in the author＇s research to determine the impact of the study of Stylistics on the understanding and teaching of literature in Namibia. The author uses traditional British poetry from the 16th century up to the 20th century alongside postcolonial poetry to assess the importance of culture in understanding poetry and examine the advantage of using stylistics to teach the poems that the author selects.

审美与真实——论奥尔巴赫的“多声部”概念

"多声部"音乐因其可以容纳多种风格的曲调而被文学评论家关注。巴赫金最早将这一术语用于文学批评领域,用来指陀思妥耶夫斯基小说中特有的众多思想各异、相互交锋且不相融合的声音和意识的现象。埃里希·奥尔巴赫也将这一术语用于文学批评之中,他以"文体"作为切入点,认为"文体混用"和"文体分用"在审美特征上的差异,源于各自所包含的历史认知方式和真实观。与"文体分用"原则所再现出的固定且被规约的世界相比,"文体混用"原则如多声部乐曲一般再现出真实而又完整的世界。因此,奥尔巴赫对多声部的论述,在回应了"文学摹仿现实"这一古老命题的同时,也因其包容性和多元化特征而显现出对古典主义文学规范的反拨与超越。

Effect of Zuogui pill and Yougui pill on osteoporosis： a randomized controlled trial

OBJECTIVE： To evaluate the effect and safety of Zuogui pill and Yougui pill, classic Y/n and Yang tonic formula （CYYTF）, in the treatment of osteoporosis and the underlying mechanism. METHODS： Participants aged 55 to 75 with osteoporosis and Kidney deficiency in Traditional Chi-nese Medicine （TCM） will be included and randomly allocated into two groups： treatment group and control group. Participants in the treatment group were treated with Zuogui pill or Yougui pill TCM formula granule, while the control group received pla- cebo. Primary outcomes are the lumbar spine on bone mineral density （BMD） （L1-4） and femoral BMD. Secondary outcomes include pain intensity, health-related quality of life （HRQoL）, bone turn- over markers and safety. RESULTS： Totally 200 patients were enrolled from December 2014 to April 2016 from four hospitals. There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups at baseline （P 〉 0.05） and it was good to comparability. Statistically signifi- cant differences between the two groups were ob- served for the lumbar BMD （L1-4）, pain VAS scores and HRQoL at six months and twelve months and femoral BMD at twelve months （P 〈 0.05）, but no significant differences for femoral BMD and bone turnover markers at six months （P 〉 0.05）. More- over, significant difference was observed at differ- ent time before and after treatment in terms of lum- bar spine （L1-4） BMD, femoral BMD, pain VAS scores and health-related quality of life, and there was an crossover effect between the time and groups be- fore and after treatment. In additional, in the treat- ment group, 8 patients lost to follow-up and 3 patients had adverse events （AEs） and in the control group, 10 patients lost to follow-up and 2 patients had AEs. No remarkable differences were observed between the two groups with regard to AEs, lost rate and safety （P 〉 0.05）. CONCLUSION： Zuogui pill or Yougui pill could improve BMD, ease pain, relieve Kidney deficiencysyndrome, improve the quality of life osteoporosis patients, inhibit bone conversion and regulate the coupling balance of bone formation and bone resorption, but long-term efficacy should be confirmed by a longer term follow-up and larger of samples clinical randomized controlled trials.

Classification of interventions in Traditional Chinese Medicine

OBJECTIVE: To describe the key systems used for Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) classification.METHODS: The TCM classifications used in the International Classification of Diseases-9 Clinical Modification(ICD-9-CM) volume 3, the ICD-10 Procedure Coding System, the International Classification of Health Interventions, and the Medical Subject Headings(Me SH) and Chinese Traditional Medicine and Materia Medica Subject Headings(TCMe SH) thesauruses were compared regarding descriptive terms, structure, and features of TCM interventions.RESULTS: The National Library of Medicine's Me SH thesaurus is ubiquitous. The ICD-9-CM(volume 3),ICD-10 Procedure Coding System, and International Classification of Health Interventions cover insufficient concepts of TCM, and cannot be used directly as classification systems for TCM interventions. In contrast, the TCM contents of the TCMe SH thesaurus are complete, systematic, and detailed, and its hierarchical structure can be used for effective TCM classification.CONCLUSION: TCM classification is very limited and flawed. The Me SH thesaurus helps decrease the detrimental effect of the language barrier. Similarly, the TCMe SH thesaurus can help those without full command of the Mandarin language to access Chinese literature, but the value of searches using TCMe SH could be improved by collaborative working with Information Specialists who are fluent in Mandarin and understand TCM.