「古文」作爲傳統中國士人日常表達和學術著作的主要文體，在思想世界與知識世界中具有重要的地位。然而，除了在文學史研究中討論「知識」對「文章」的重要性，我們似乎很少反過來設問，「文章」對「知識」有何作用？作爲「學問」載體的古文，是否真正介入了這些學術性知識的傳承與變革？基於這一思路，本文希望將對「古文」的研究，置於一更大的社會文化脈絡之中，探討「文章」如何塑造了讀書人的知識視野和學問秩序。 / 文章與知識之間的張力，在古代文學史及思想史上一直存在；然在清代，由於儒家知識主義之興起，此一張力獲得了更爲自覺和充分的展開。本文認爲，從晚明到清初，中國士人的知識視野經歷了一次擴張，而明中期以降博覽求古的「文章」趣味，正是其重要的動力。入清之後，「文」「學」之緊張日益顯現。康熙十七年詔徵博學鴻儒，還是以「詞章」評判「博學」；至乾隆間開經學特科，所重便是「根柢經史」的專門學問；由「博」而「精」，「文」「學」相離。不過，在以「文章」訓練為主的書院教育中，對「古學」的提倡往往還需要借助「古文」之力；同時清人以「著書明道」為理想，考經證史的成績、自身的學術趣味與知識修養，都需要選擇恰當的「著述」體裁以表達之。在編次文集乃至註釋經書之時，不少學者都對其「著作」的方式作出精心的安排，以求體現其學問之系統。「文」與「學」的互動，實又通過另一種形式表現出來。此外，「著書明道」，還可以看作一個以「私言」發明「公道」的實踐，故而「著作」不僅是對公共「知識」的傳遞，更是對個人「性情」的表達。在清中期，「文」與「學」的張力進一步推演出性情與知識關係的重整。「文」「學」離合之間，清代讀書人知識世界的遷變，正有跡可循。 / The concept of ‘wenxue’(文學) in Chinese intellectual tradition philologically consists of two basic elements: belle-lettres (文wen) and learning (學xue). Thus when talking about ‘wenxue’ we are referring to not only a heritage of literature, but also a genealogy of knowledge. This dissertation aims to shed light upon the socio-cultural and epistemic aspects of classical prose(古文 guwen), which is a main genre of classical literature as well as the prevailing form of both practical and scholarly writing in late imperial China. Questions raised in my research include: How were different categories of knowledge ordered and systematized? In what way did the literary taste of intellectuals delimit and displace their epistemological boundaries? And how was the world of knowledge embodied through the compiling of literary anthologies and the writing of scholarly works? / China’s long eighteenth century (1644-1799) witnessed an adequate and self-conscious unfoldment of the perennial tension of literature and knowledge in the shadow of the Confucian intellectualism. The Ming literati’s interests for archaic literature and ancient texts, which lead to a trend of vast learning, herald the expansion of knowledge in late Ming and early Qing. In the 1679 ‘Boxue Hongru’ Examination, literary excellence was still regarded as a crucial criterion for the selection of ‘erudite scholars’. The rise of evidential study, however, intensified the tension between literary talent and scholarly learning. Men of letters were criticized for having no knowledge of the real way of learning, although they had copious knowledge of classical literature. The curiosity for erudition and was regulated, if not replaced by the pursuit of philological study on the Confucian classics. In spite of such idealistic divergence of ‘literati’ and ‘scholar’, literary writing played a significant role in the propagation and expression of scholarship. On one hand, study on Confucian classics and ancient history was advocated in local academies(shuyuan 書院) through the training of prose writing. On the other hand, scholars had to be very concerned about choosing the appropriate genre or the most refined textual form to lucubrate their academic work. Furthermore, debates on the proper form of academic writing made special contribution to the revival of subjectivism in the realm of academic studies. From my perspective, the interaction of ‘wen’ and ‘xue’ played a decisive role in shaping the trajectory of both literary and academic history of late imperial China. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 胡琦. / Parallel title from added title page. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 540-551). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Hu Qi.

黎必信. / "2012年3月". / "2012 nian 3 yue". / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 355-368). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Li Bixin.

Book review of the collection titled ´East African literature: Essays on Written and Oral Tradition´ edited by J.K.S. Makokha, Egara Kabaji and Dominica Dipio

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This thesis provides a full-length critical treatment of the Essayes (1600-01) of Sir William Cornwallis (c.1579-1614). Cornwallis' Essayes are the first examples of the ‘familiar’ essay in English: to which the rhetorical shaping of persona and the use of the personal voice are central. This is the first such study of Cornwallis since the first half of the twentieth century, and situates his Essayes within their cultural, social, and material contexts. The thesis draws upon previous work on Cornwallis and his Essayes from the 1930s and 1940s, but also on recent developments in early-modern English studies, especially in the fields of the history of rhetoric and the history of reading. The thesis challenges the assumptions behind two major critical approaches to the early-modern essay: firstly that it is a form in which the personal voice can be unambiguously expressed, and secondly that it is an essentially unoriginal genre which is more closely related to reading than to writing. This thesis qualifies these approaches, while demonstrating that the origins of each are found in the rhetorical practices of early English essays. This thesis argues however that Cornwallis’s essays are elaborate fusions of classical commonplaces, humanistic rhetoric, and ethical theories of how to live, resulting from complex interactions between different strands of humanistic educative practices, and that Cornwallis’s use of the personal voice is shaped by ethically-inflected rhetorical theories of affect and imitation. The thesis further attempts to think about how essays were being read in this period, and to do so offers a study of the material traces of reading, in the form of annotations and commonplace books, left by early-modern readers of John Florio’s English translation of Montaigne (1603).

Compilation of two papers, the first of which was accepted for publication in the South African Journal of Philosophy in the second half of 2001. / Why metaphors have no meaning : considering metaphoric meaning in Davidson. -- Bare idea of a conceptual scheme : relativism, intercultural communication and Davidson. / Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: WHY METAPHORS HAVE NO MEANING: CONSIDERING METAPHORIC MEANING IN DAVIDSON Since the publication of Donald Davidson's essay 'What Metaphors Mean' (1984c) - in which he famously asserts that metaphor has no meaning - the views expressed in it have mostly met with criticism: prominently from Mary Hesse and Max Black. This article attempts to explain Davidson's surprise-move regarding metaphor by relating it to elements in the rest of his work in semantics, such as the principle of compositionality, radical interpretation and the principle of charity. I conclude that Davidson's views on metaphor are not only consistent with his semantic theory generally, but that his semantics also depend on these insights. Eventually, the debate regarding Davidson's views on metaphor should be conducted on the level of his views on the nature of semantics, the relationship between language and the world and the possibility of there existing something like conceptual schemes. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: THE BARE IDEA OF A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME: RELATIVISM, INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND DAVIDSON Donald Davidson's paper 'On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme' ('OVICS') has become famous for the refutation accomplished in it of conceptual relativism. Via an argument that, essentially, all languages are intertranslatable, Davidson rejects the notion that different conceptual schemes can inhere in the supposed 'un-translatable' languages said to exist by, for instance, Whorf and Kuhn. Critics of Davidson's position have mainly focussed on practical issues, with many holding that his arguments in 'OVICS' ignore the realities of the real intercultural communication situation. In the present paper, I address criticisms of this sort. Davidson's arguments are reconstructed, with attention being paid to their dependence on the idea of practical application in the real intercommunication situation. With the aid of practical examples, the implications of elements of Davidson's philsophy of interpretation for intercultural communication are evaluated. Finally, radical interpretation is presented as a better model for intercultural dialogue than linguistically relativist ones. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: WHY METAPHORS HAVE NO MEANING: CONSIDERING METAPHORIC MEANING IN DAVIDSON Sedert die publikasie van Donald Davidson se opstel 'What Metaphors Mean' (1984c) - waarin hy die berugte stelling maak dat metafoor geen betekenis het nie - is sy sieninge meestal begroet met kritiek, ook van prominente figure soos Mary Hesse en Max Black. Hierdie artikel poog om 'n verduideliking te vind vir Davidson se verassende skuif aangaande metafoor, deur sy sieninge hieroor te kontekstualiseer teen die agtergrond van elemente uit die res van sy werk in semantiek, soos die beginsel van komposisionaliteit, radikale interpretasie en die beginsel van rasionele akkomodasie ('charity'). Ek kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat Davidson se sieninge aangaande metafoor nie slegs naatloos aansluit by sy algemene sieninge aangaande semantiek nie, maar dat die res van sy semantiese teorie ook afhang van sy sieninge aangaande metafoor. Uiteindelik behoort die debat rakende Davidson se sieninge aangaande metafoor gevoer te word op die vlak van die aard van semantiek, die verhouding tussen taal en die werklikheid en die moontlike bestaan van konseptueie skemas. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: THE BARE IDEA OF A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME: RELATIVISM, INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND DAVIDSON Donald Davidson se artikel 'On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme' het beroemdheid verwerf as teenargument vir die idee van konseptuele relativisme. By wyse van 'n argument dat alle tale in beginsel vertaalbaar is, verwerp Davidson die idee dat verskillende konseptueie skemas kan skuilgaan in die veronderstelde 'onvertaalbare' tale waarvan daar sprake is by byvoorbeeld Whorf en Kuhn. Kritici van Davidson se posisie beperk hul hoofsaaklik tot praktiese besware en 'n vername aanklag teen Davidson is dat hy die realiteite misken van werklike interkulturele gesprek. In hierdie artikel spreek ek sodanige kritiek aan. Ek herkonstrueer Davidson se argumente en voer aan dat dit deurgaans afhanklik is van die idee van toepassing in 'n praktiese situasie van interkulturele dialoog. By wyse van praktiese voorbeelde evalueer ek die implikasies van Davidson se filosofie van interpretasie vir interkulturele kommunikasie. Laastens bied ek radikale interpretasie aan as 'n beter model vir interkulturele dialoog as linguisties relativistiese modelle.

This study is concerned with the effect of placing text into a mediated structure form upon the generation of test items for analysis level domain referenced test construction. The item writing methodology used is the linguistic (operationally defined) item writing technology developed by Bormuth, Finn, Roid, Haladyna and others. This item writing methodology is compared to 1) the intuitive method based on Bloom's definition of analysis level test questions and 2) the intuitive with keywords identified method of item writing. A mediated structure was developed by coordinating or subordinating sentences in an essay by following five simple grammatical rules. Three test writers each composed a ten-item test using each of the three methodologies based on a common essay. Tests were administered to 102 Composition 1 community college students. Students were asked to read the essay and complete one test form. Test forms by writer and method were randomly delivered. Analysis of variance showed no significant differences among either methods or writers. Item analysis showed no method of item writing resulting in items of consistent difficulty among test item writers. While the results of this study show no significant difference from the intuitive, traditional methods of item writing, analysis level test item generation using a mediating structure may yet prove useful to the classroom teacher with access to a computer. All three test writers agree that test items were easier to write using the generative rules and mediated structure. Also, some relief was felt by the writers in that the method theoretically assured that an analysis level item was written.

Essa dissertação objetiva investigar a extensão da influência do sistema de escrita virtual, denominado txtng por Crystal (2009) - sistema utilizado frequentemente na composição de mensagens de texto enviadas via sites de relacionamento e programas de comunicação sincrônica sobre a variedade padrão escrita da língua portuguesa. Para melhor compreender essa relação de contato, buscou-se investigar o contexto de produção, a formação e os recursos comuns desse novo sistema gráfico cujo desenvolvimento foi motivado pela evolução tecnológica. Isso levou à conclusão de que não se trata de uma nova língua, nem somente da variação de um sistema de escrita oficial, mas de um novo sistema gráfico, paralelo ao oficial, repleto de recursos comuns em línguas diversas, que visa à comunicação com agilidade, rapidez e facilidade, acrescido de ludicidade. Partindo-se disso, foi colhido um corpus composto por cem redações escolares de alunos do 8º ano do Ensino Fundamental II da região do Grande ABC, procurando-se levantar dos textos escritos segundo a norma padrão da língua portuguesa recursos comuns na txtng. Constatou-se que a influência do sistema de escrita tecnológico, menos prestigiada, sobre a padrão diz respeito principalmente a transferências estruturais, e não de vocabulário, havendo destaque para a análise de aspectos relacionados à ortografia e a tendências de organização e diagramação do texto no papel. Frisa-se, por fim, que algumas analogias e assimilações que dão origem às formas estudadas são trazidas inicialmente da fala, mas que é o ambiente de comunicação escrita virtual que concretiza de forma marcante as mesmas no modelo e repertório de texto escrito do indivíduo e da comunidade linguística a qual pertence, levando às transferências gramaticais sobre a variedade padrão, dentre as quais a fragmentação se mostra como característica marcante. / This thesis has the purpose of investigating the extent of the influence of the virtual writing system named txtng by Crystal (2009) a system which is frequently used to compose text messages sent via social networks and synchronous communication programs on the standard written modality of Portuguese. In order to better understand this contact relation, an investigation was made of the context of production, the formation and the common resources of this new graphic system, whose development was motivated by the the evolution of technology. This led to the conclusion that it is not a new language, nor a variation of an official writing system, but a new graphic system, parallel to the standard one. This system is filled with resources which are common in several languages, which aim at swift, fast, easy, but also playful communication. For that purpose, a corpus was formed out of a hundred school essays written by 8th year students from the region of the Greater ABC. It was then used to survey the common txtng resources which are found in the texts written according to the standard norm of the Portuguese language. It was found that the influence of the less prestigious technological modality over the standard one is located mainly in structural, not lexical, transfers, with aspects related to orthography and the trends in organization and layout of the text on paper standing out. The thesis highlights the fact that some analogies and assimilations which give rise to the forms under study are initially used in speech, but it is the virtual written communication environment that concretizes them so forcefully in the model and repertoire of the written text of individuals and the linguistic community they belong to, producing interferences on the standard modality, with fragmentation being one of its hallmarks.

This poetic thesis is an exploration of the darker side of relationships. There are two parts of this thesis and they are to be read independently of each other. Part one is concerned with the chaotic relationship structure between lovers, husbands and wives, and the unexpected anguish that results from living an inauthentic life. Part two of my thesis is a rumination of a past close friendship and the tragic death of that friend. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANAID BERTEZLIAN SAZDJIAN.pdf: 3541457 bytes, checksum: b7e127e11d0f01b59c650cdb28241f37 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-09 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The current research aimed to examine argumentative texts from SARESP 2005 (School Evaluation and Efficiency System of the State of São Paulo), written by 3rd grade students of high school in a public state school, night shift, east area, and to check to what extent the non-observation of Hoey´s proposal (1994), based on Jordan´s integrated three-pronged analysis (1992), could damage their production. In the current study, I base on Hoey to examine (a) the structure Problem-Solution, since his more detailed proposal completes Jordan´s and being so, I consider it to be more adequate to my analytical purposes. As for items (b) and (c), which are closer related to cohesion and coherence, I make use of the studies of Halliday & Hassan (1989), focusing on Reference Chain (Martin, 1992), which examines lexical repetition and of Eggins (1994), which complements those studies. The methodology of this research was based on qualitative research, as it deals with a study of argumentative texts written by students and basically relied on Hoey´s 1994 Problem-Solution Structure proposal, backed up by Functional Systemic Linguistic. The corpus of this research is composed by 20 essays, evaluated as fair (grade 2), according to SARESP´s evaluating criteria. Out of these essays, five were selected by me to be analyzed in the proposal of this research. The results of this study show that the use of the Three-pronged analysis were not properly used is the essays analyzed. We could show with our research that this proposal helps in the global coherence and cohesion of a text, as well as in students communicative improvement through their written texts / A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo examinar textos argumentativos do SARESP 2005 (Sistema de Avaliação de Rendimento Escolar do Estado de São Paulo), produzidos por alunos de 3ª. Série do Ensino Médio da Rede Pública Estadual, período noturno, zona Leste e verificar em que medida a não observação da proposta de Hoey (1994), baseada na análise integrada de Três Pontas (An integrated three-pronged analysis), de Jordan (1992), pôde prejudicar a sua produção. No presente estudo, apóio-me em Hoey para o exame de (a) a estrutura Problema-Solução, já que sua proposta, mais detalhada, completa a de Jordan, e assim julgo-a mais adequada aos meus propósitos analíticos. Já para os itens (b) e (c), que dizem respeito, mais de perto, à coesão e coerência, recorro aos estudos de Halliday & Hasan (1989), com enfoque na Cadeia de Referência (Martin, 1992), que examina a repetição lexical, e de Eggins (1994), que complementa aqueles estudos. Esta pesquisa teve sua metodologia pautada na pesquisa qualitativa, por se tratar de um estudo de textos argumentativos produzidos por alunos e fundamentou-se basicamente na proposta da Estrutura Problema-Solução, de Hoey (1994), com apoio na Lingüística Sistêmico- Funcional. O corpus desta pesquisa é composto de 20 redações, avaliadas com o conceito considerado 2 razoável, pelos critérios de avaliação do SARESP. Destas redações, cinco foram selecionadas por mim para serem analisadas dentro da proposta desta pesquisa. Os resultados deste estudo demonstraram que o uso da proposta das Três Pontas não foram utilizados nas redações adequadamente. Mostramos com nossa pesquisa que esta proposta auxilia na coerência e coesão global do texto, bem como para a eficácia comunicativa dos alunos por meio de seus textos escritos