The Manipulation of Power Discourse on Religious Translation Both in the West and in China

As a cross-lingual, cross-cultural, cross-time-and-space communication, religious translation has inevitably been stamped, from the very beginning, with the brand of ideology and has, more or less, been restrained by political factors there and then. The translated version, very often, cannot truly mirror the essence of the source text mainly because translation is manipulated by the power discourse in the target culture.

Power as Resource-Power as Discourse: An Overview Evaluation of the Key-Factors of “Wind Farms” and “Riparian Rights” as Sources of Power

Nowadays, the concept of power can illuminate the nature of contestation. Indeed, it is apparent that discourse coalitions exist both within the wind sector and the riparian corridors management. In the present study, a theoretical framework for policy power analysis is presented, while a balanced European and national energy policies representation reveals the positive and negative impacts, towards which both the above two power sources may be attributed. The “power” holistic approach is mainly determined in a wider social-economic, political, and environmental framework. This multidimensional and holistic approach is considered invaluable for humans/consumers, in order them to determine their capacities, priorities and perspectives for viable use of power within the above complex-structured framework. Finally, the study adopts a balanced reassessment of the existing policies, offering tentative proposals for reducing conflicts.

The Influence of Medialization to Legal Discourse Concerning Context, Media and Social Power

Medialization has become like digitalization, rationalization, dynamization, globalization, pluralization, hybridization, and differentialization and is one of the buzzwords of modern Western industrialized societies, which are all together essentially responsible for structural change in communication. Medialization means the adaption of producers to media logics, media formats, and media routines ＆ workflows. There are consequently and logically influences because of the dynamic process of medialization to legal discourse and genres, law, media, and social power. It has to be discussed if the logics, data formats, and routines ＆ workflows of new media and information and communication technologies （ICTs） like social media are creating also a new generation of genres and novel form of legal discourses. Also, if social media will replace or complete old classic media （law of Riepl）, the question of the relevance of law concerning new ＆ social media has to be answered in close future. Lastly, if to the fore of social power, these new novel resources are actually framing for problem-based inquiries in law. There are big chances but also serious risks in cyberworld, their realities, and dangers. There actually exists an urgent call of action to theory building, development of methodologies, and empirical research.

A Study of Power in English Corporate E-mails： A Discourse Approach

Nowadays, the e-mail exchange has been prevailing all over the world. Nevertheless, studies on power exercised and enacted in e-mail communication within a corporation can hardly be found at home. The present study, based on the theoretical framework of power＆ solidarity and politeness systems （Scollon,R and Scollon, S.W. 2000）, is made with an attempt to explore the power relations in e-mail exchange among staffof＂upper-lower＂ ranks within multinational corporations in China. The study shows that, in modern multinational corporations, power is an underlying force. To mask and mystify power, we need to resort to a range of linguistic strategies such as the use of relative modality, inclusive pronoun ＂we/our＂, the selection of informal words and the preferred FN （first names） forms of addressing.

eacher Power： A Critical Discourse Perspective Department of Fine Arts,Chongqing University of Education

Power relation can be revealed in discourse. Teacher power, to a large extent, is manifested through teacher talk. This paper attempts to provide an analysis of classroom language from a critical discourse perspective as to uncover the power hidden in teacher talk and of how language contributes to teacher power.

The Pragmatic Analysis on Discourse Power in Courtroom

Courtroom discourse is a typical institutional discourse, which reflects the complicated discourse purpose among the participants in courtroom, with several characteristics such as: asymmetry of power relation, complex directions of communication and complex meaning of utterance. Although courtroom discourse is restricted by special procedures or rules, it is still under the control of the cooperative principle and politeness principle. In order to achieve goals, the participants are bound to obey or violate the cooperative principle and politeness principle. This paper is based on the pragmatic theory, switching trial audio into words, trying to find out the purposes why the participants are liable to flout cooperative principle and use politeness and impoliteness strategies, in order to further explore the discourse power in courtroom. This essay not only broaden the perspective of pragmatic research, but reveal the communicative goal in terms of power relation. It will conducive to grasp the interaction conversation, so as to guarantee the fairness of court trial.

Chinese Enterprises Have More Discourse Power

This year’s B20 meeting has produced 20 policy recommendations.My involvement in the SME working group has given me more insight into the increasing discourse power of Chinese entrepreneurs.We are facing a time of digital globalization.As one of the first explor-

Empowering the Voice: The Reconstruction of Female Discourse from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius

There are abound with the deconstruction of classic works in recent years,among which Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius is undoubtedly an impressive one.Updike completed the antecedent part of Shakespeare’s play Hamlt.Noticeably,this new prequel of Hamlet,from the mindset of female,takes Queen Gertrude as the narrative center and airs Gertrude’s psychological states to break the confinement of female discourse in Shakespeare’s plays.Hinged on Foucault’s theory of power and discourse,this paper attempts to analyze how Updike manifests women’s endeavors to assert preserve and construct their discourse,break the aphasia and even challenge the voice of male authority by elucidating the interactions between Queen Gertrude and other crucial male roles in the full text in order to navigate readers in-depth to scrutinize the changes of women’s social status in different era.

Discourse Power in Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte has a great reputation in the world as a romantic realistic novel Jane Eyre.The important female character of Bertha Mason,under her craziness,is essentially deprived of her identity and discourse.By contrast,Jane Eyre is conscious of breaking the shackles of patriarchy and constructs female discourse and controls her own destiny.

Exploration and Analysis on the Discourse Power of Network Moral Education

Network moral education has three connotations including discourse right,discourse power and discourse effectiveness,and four characteristics including interactivity,diversity,symbolism and implicity.These characteristics to a certain extent make the position and function between the subject and object of network education change,resulting in the discourse power and discourse effectiveness out of sync.Therefore,when solving these problems,we should take the ideological beliefs as the leading point,use the new media technology means,take the discourse power construction as the starting point,occupy the discourse highland and manifest the representation.At the same time,we should take life practice as the standard,change the discourse,break the implicity,and put the initiative of network moral education in the hands of educators.

Establish an International Communication Platform for Human Rights and Promote China's Discourse Power on Human Rights——A Review on Ten Years of Beijing Forum on Human Rights

The beijing forum on Human Rights is a global human rights forum founded by the china Society for Human Rights Studies in 2008? it has been successfully held for nine times? in the past 10 years, the forum has kept up with the trend of the times and carefully set up issues; seeking common ground while reserving differences,seeking the greatest consensus on human rights; being open and inclusive, and building a model of international human rights exchange and cooperation? The forum has become a high-level academic platform for human rights exchanges and cooperation on the basis of equality,harmony, tolerance, openness and mutual respect, and has played an important role in promoting the healthy development of the international human rights cause? With the socialism with chinese characteristics entering a new era, the beijing forum on Human Rights needs to position new roles in the new era, seek more clear development momentum and direction, and promote the vitality, cohesiveness and international influence of the forum in a deep and all-round way and contribute to the development of world human rights cause and global human rights governance?

Power Relations in Older Adults’ Cognitive Interaction in Clinical Setting: A Multimodal Pragmatic Perspective

This study explored the construction of power relations in the cognitive assessment of older adults within the Chinese clinical context.Data is derived from audio and video recordings that nine older adults produced in the cognitive assessment of the Chinese version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment-Basic(MoCA-B),which were then annotated and analyzed from a multimodal pragmatic perspective.The study reveals that examiners and older adults employed various speech acts to achieve distinct communicative goals,with power relations between them being reflected through these speech acts.Examiners tend to claim high power,utilizing discourse strategies such as request,interruption,evaluation,rhetorical questions,and directive speech acts.In contrast,older adults assert high power through directive speech acts,rhetorical questions,and interruptions.Both parties also exhibit low power by using confirming questions and explanations.Additionally,gestures,smiles,prosody features,and other non-verbal communicative resources are synergistically employed to exercise power.The interactive mechanism of constructing power relations reveals that age affects older adults’power relations construction even in a professional setting of the Chinese context.The negotiation between the advanced age of older adults and the expertise of examiners jointly shapes power relations in their interactions.

PowerPoint幻灯片符号技术在大学英语课堂的创新性建构

本文采用多模态社会符号学的方法与视角来研究大学英语课堂中所使用的幻灯片。研究方法以两个前提为中心:(1) PowerPoint是一种符号技术,可以整合到课堂教学话语中;(2) PowerPoint技术包含了社会符号学实践的三个相互关联的维度:软件设计、幻灯片组成和幻灯片支持的文稿演示。运用这种方法,我们探究了PowerPoint是如何在宁波一所大学的英语课堂教学中使用的。本文的分析展示了PowerPoint中的多模态资源是如何被用于语言教学话语再语境化。更具体地说,它展示了不同的符号学资源是如何在课堂话语空间中被运用和组合,来重新语境化知识构架,以及教学框架的不同优势是如何通过多模态创新实现的。

Power Representation on Sundanese Proverbs

This study examines the representation of power on a number of Sundanese proverbs.The objective is to analyze traditional views on the perceptions of power in Sundanese society and explore the interrelation between language,power and culture.The data for this study were collected from Rosidi(2005,2010).The results showed that power is represented mostly in neuter and noble contexts.This study concludes that Sundanese proverbs depict that anybody can hold power,regardless their genders,social status and ages,as long as they have the supporting factors,i.e.wealth,nobility and knowledge.

Hidden Power in the Jail

Power lies everywhere, and penetrates among people. In the relationships, power is extended in various forms. From the analysis of power-knowledge-discourse relations in The Shawshank's Redemption, power's common existence and great influence could be proved sincerely.

A Critical Discourse Analysis on the Teacher Behavioral Norms of English Training School

With a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, this essay reveals four types of discourses: discourse of examination, instruction, technology and regulation. Based on the analysis of power relation among those discourses, a vivid picture of teachers' identity at training-school has been clearly sketched. That is, teacher at training-school is a puppet acting as not only the transmitter of specific knowledge, but also the supervisor of rules and spokesman of institution.

Power Relation in A Life in the Theatre

As a noted modern American playwright, David Mamet attracts wide attention from the readers, the audience, as well as the academic circle with his fascinating language features. In his plays, in order to achieve their individual goals, the male characters, applying the discursive power with language as weapon, endeavor to build a new structure of power. It aims to analyze A Life in the Theatre, with such discourse-analysis mechanics as turn-taking and politeness strategy, to examine the power relations between the two male characters in the play, and finally to explain how discourse influence and alter the power relations in reality.

文化强国背景下中国学术话语权评价体系的构建与提升路径探析——以中国社会科学学科为例

[目的/意义]目前在文化强国战略背景下,我国学术话语权正处在重要的发展阶段,学术话语权评价有助于促进中国学术应对新时代发展的挑战,推动中国特色学术话语权国际化和本土化,明晰未来中国学术话语权发展的总体方向与具体举措。[方法/过程]本文采用文献与网络调研、比较研究、科学计量学等方法,系统地梳理了国内外学术话语权的基本理论、实践脉络,立足于中国学术话语权国内外发展实践,基于学术主体视角,参照相关学术成果评价指标体系,并对中国社会科学学科进行了实证研究,在此基础上,进一步思考和分析了提升中国学术话语权的现实路径。[结论/发现]中国学术话语权评价的核心要素主要由学术引领力、学术竞争力、学术创新力和学术传播力4部分组成,通过实证分析发现中国社会科学学科的多数学科在国际上的地位还比较低。最后提出了提升中国学术话语权国际影响和地位可从这4个方面进行全面提升。

The Three-dimensional Model of “ConstructionTranslation-Communication” for the Construction of a Human Rights Discourse System with Chinese Characteristics in the Post-pandemic Era

Human rights have always been the focus of disputes between China and the West. To make a better China story about human rights and enhance China’s international discourse power in the field of human rights, we propose the text construction, translation and communication path of the construction of the human rights discourse system with Chinese characteristics from the cross-disciplinary perspective. Based on the examples of prevention and control of the CoVID-19 pandemic under the concept of putting people first, mainstream diplomatic linguistic data relevant to the fight against the novel coronavirus was collected through the internet. The human rights discourse with Chinese characteristics is constructed through a variety of texts focusing on putting the people first, the right to life, the right to health, the right to information, the right to privacy, the right to work and a sense of a community with a shared future for human beings. The core concepts of human rights have experienced the deepening process of decontextualization, abstraction and theorization to gradually conform to the expression habits of international audiences. The international communication effect is mainly positive in civil society. It shows that the construction of China’s human rights discourse system and the governance of international human rights discourse have achieved preliminary results. To enhance China’s discourse power on human rights, we need to add an interdisciplinary approach.