Discourse is the language in use. Discourse system is about the study of whole systems of communication. This article tries to analyze the influences of discourse system on intercultural communication from the points ...Discourse is the language in use. Discourse system is about the study of whole systems of communication. This article tries to analyze the influences of discourse system on intercultural communication from the points of ideology, socialization, forms of discourse, face systems and context. Studying intercultural communication from the point of discourse system is an innovative and effective research method, which helps to enhance the participants' cultural sensitivity and makes the communication continue.展开更多
Linguistic dynamic systems(LDS)are dynamic processes involving computing with words(CW)for modeling and analysis of complex systems.In this paper,a fuzzy neural network(FNN)structure of LDS was proposed.In addition,an...Linguistic dynamic systems(LDS)are dynamic processes involving computing with words(CW)for modeling and analysis of complex systems.In this paper,a fuzzy neural network(FNN)structure of LDS was proposed.In addition,an improved nonlinear particle swarm optimization was employed for training FNN.The experiment results on logistics formulation demonstrates the feasibility and the efficiency of this FNN model.展开更多
In recent decades, ecological problems are becoming more and more serious, which are focused worldwide. "Eco-[inguistics" (EL) also called "Ecology of Language" emerges in the situation that scholars try their b...In recent decades, ecological problems are becoming more and more serious, which are focused worldwide. "Eco-[inguistics" (EL) also called "Ecology of Language" emerges in the situation that scholars try their best to solve the problems in linguistics. As an emerging interdisciplinary area of ecology and linguistics, eco-linguistics aims at analyzing the ecological phenomenon in language, exploring the relation between language and environment, and looking for the variety of internal patterns of language. At present, scholars at home have made a lot of achievements with the tendency from theoretical studies to practical studies. On the theoretical framework of eco-linguistics and the transitivity method of Systemic Functional Linguistics(SFL), by analyzing two texts excerpted from BBC news reports which involve two kinds of animals, this article tries to explore the relation between human and animals and our attitudes toward different animals, analyze the ecological elements and hidden non-ecological features in the discourses, reveal the essential reasons for ecological disruption---inherent human ideology, interpret the influences on nature. We expect that people pay more attention to the issues of environment protection, change anthropocentrism to ecocentrism which builds the harmonious relation between human and nature.展开更多
The function of prosody model will directly affect the naturalness of synthesized speech.Aimed at the difficulty in generating the pitch contour in prosody model,two pitch models namely corpus-based pitch model and pi...The function of prosody model will directly affect the naturalness of synthesized speech.Aimed at the difficulty in generating the pitch contour in prosody model,two pitch models namely corpus-based pitch model and pitch pattern model are deeply studied in this paper.Key problems in the corpus-based model are calculation of the distance and searching of the optimal path with dynamic programming algorithm.For the pitch pattern model,parameters such as pitch pattern,pitch average and pitch range are used to describe the pitch contour,and six pitch patterns are presented.For the generation of pitch contour,the pitch pattern model is more flexible than the corpus-based model.Both of the two models are linked to the real TTS system,and the MOS results of synthesized Mandarin speech show that the pitch pattern model is better than the corpus-based pitch model.展开更多
The transcultural communication that characterizes our times needs to be carried out in a few commonly shared languages and this requirement has sharpened the awareness about uneven language status. While defenders of...The transcultural communication that characterizes our times needs to be carried out in a few commonly shared languages and this requirement has sharpened the awareness about uneven language status. While defenders of minor languages frequently make use of such concepts as ecosystem, human rights, capital, power, imperialism, etc. To express alarm at the spread of the English language in the present world, researchers tend to forget that these concepts applied to languages are only metaphors which, taken at their face value, would conceal the non- exclusive nature of language as a communicative instrument. A question is raised as to whether we should go beyond an essentially nationalist perception of language inherited from the nineteenth century.展开更多
文摘Discourse is the language in use. Discourse system is about the study of whole systems of communication. This article tries to analyze the influences of discourse system on intercultural communication from the points of ideology, socialization, forms of discourse, face systems and context. Studying intercultural communication from the point of discourse system is an innovative and effective research method, which helps to enhance the participants' cultural sensitivity and makes the communication continue.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60873179)Doctoral Program Foundation of Institutions of Higher Education of China(No.20090121110032)+3 种基金Shenzhen Science and Technology Research Foundations,China(No.JC200903180630A,No.ZYB200907110169A)Key Project of Institutes Serving for the Economic Zone on the Western Coast of the Tai wan Strait,ChinaNatural Science Foundation of Xiamen,China(No.3502Z2093018)Projects of Education Depart ment of Fujian Province of China(No.JK2009017,No.JK2010031,No.JA10196)
文摘Linguistic dynamic systems(LDS)are dynamic processes involving computing with words(CW)for modeling and analysis of complex systems.In this paper,a fuzzy neural network(FNN)structure of LDS was proposed.In addition,an improved nonlinear particle swarm optimization was employed for training FNN.The experiment results on logistics formulation demonstrates the feasibility and the efficiency of this FNN model.
文摘In recent decades, ecological problems are becoming more and more serious, which are focused worldwide. "Eco-[inguistics" (EL) also called "Ecology of Language" emerges in the situation that scholars try their best to solve the problems in linguistics. As an emerging interdisciplinary area of ecology and linguistics, eco-linguistics aims at analyzing the ecological phenomenon in language, exploring the relation between language and environment, and looking for the variety of internal patterns of language. At present, scholars at home have made a lot of achievements with the tendency from theoretical studies to practical studies. On the theoretical framework of eco-linguistics and the transitivity method of Systemic Functional Linguistics(SFL), by analyzing two texts excerpted from BBC news reports which involve two kinds of animals, this article tries to explore the relation between human and animals and our attitudes toward different animals, analyze the ecological elements and hidden non-ecological features in the discourses, reveal the essential reasons for ecological disruption---inherent human ideology, interpret the influences on nature. We expect that people pay more attention to the issues of environment protection, change anthropocentrism to ecocentrism which builds the harmonious relation between human and nature.
基金Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.60503071)the 973 National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2004CB318102)the Postdoctor Science Foundation of China(Grant No.20070420275)
文摘The function of prosody model will directly affect the naturalness of synthesized speech.Aimed at the difficulty in generating the pitch contour in prosody model,two pitch models namely corpus-based pitch model and pitch pattern model are deeply studied in this paper.Key problems in the corpus-based model are calculation of the distance and searching of the optimal path with dynamic programming algorithm.For the pitch pattern model,parameters such as pitch pattern,pitch average and pitch range are used to describe the pitch contour,and six pitch patterns are presented.For the generation of pitch contour,the pitch pattern model is more flexible than the corpus-based model.Both of the two models are linked to the real TTS system,and the MOS results of synthesized Mandarin speech show that the pitch pattern model is better than the corpus-based pitch model.
文摘The transcultural communication that characterizes our times needs to be carried out in a few commonly shared languages and this requirement has sharpened the awareness about uneven language status. While defenders of minor languages frequently make use of such concepts as ecosystem, human rights, capital, power, imperialism, etc. To express alarm at the spread of the English language in the present world, researchers tend to forget that these concepts applied to languages are only metaphors which, taken at their face value, would conceal the non- exclusive nature of language as a communicative instrument. A question is raised as to whether we should go beyond an essentially nationalist perception of language inherited from the nineteenth century.