New Perspectives on Restructuring of Old Industrial Areas in China: A Critical Review and Research Agenda

The restructuring of old industrial areas has been receiving much attention in regional development studies both in industrialized and emerging economies. Although ample Chinese-speaking studies have been published on the topic, most of them suffer from paying too little attention to dynamic multi-scalar interactions between firms, institutions, policies and places, as well as a too strong focus on individual cases. They also mostly disregard internationally recognized concepts and theories in the field. Based on these internationally recognized modern concepts, this paper therefore puts forward some potential avenues for future research on the evolution of old industrial areas in China, which should overcome existing deficits in the Chinese-speaking literature. It suggests that some evolutionary economic geography concepts such as path dependence, lock-in, path creation, relatedness, as well as multi-scalar institutional and leadership approaches have useful potentials to better understand the evolutionary processes and mechanisms of old industrial areas in China.

The Schematic Structure of Literature Review in Research Articles of Applied Linguistics

本研究考察英汉学术论文文献综述部分的图式结构。通过对语料编码和体裁分析,发现四语步模式在中英文文献综述语篇中均为主导的图式结构。本文从体裁和跨文化视角分析了中英文应用语言学学科的论文文献综述部分的异同。中文文献综述不同于英文之处主要在于其语步结构呈直线型;其他差异限于语步之下的策略或步骤层面。本研究提出的语步结构模型可以给学术论文写作学习者和习作者提供有关文献综述图式结构的元语言知识,以帮助他们处理写作中常见的结构问题。