Based on the visual grammar framework of Kress and Van Leeuwen(2006),taking three hospice wards in Beijing as research sites,this study examines the representational,interactive,and composition meanings constructed in the stationary and ambulatory planar semiotic landscapes in palliative and hospice care.The results reveal the major characteristics of meanings conveyed and constructed at these levels,the preferences and the tensions among preferred meanings.Practical implications are provided for palliative and hospice practices.
As a pair of theoretical problems that have been debated for a prolonged period,translatability and untranslatability are the fundamental problems for translation studies.This paper discusses the history,the philosophical values of untranslatability and its differences in Chinese and western translation studies,points out that untranslatability has both practical and theoretical values and implications,and analyzes the four dimensions of differences of untranslatability in Chinese and western translation studies,i.e.origin,definition,classification and cognition.
In recent years,in order to cope with the aging problem in China,Chinese government has promoted the development of hospice care in constructing the Health Care System for the Elderly and proposed that life education should be strengthened to the public.One of the biggest challenges the practitioners face in hospice care is the communication with patients and their families about the end-of-life care.This study is set in the model base of hospice care in a public hospital in Beijing.Through ethnographic approach and conversation analysis,it observes how doctors and cancer patients communicate in the outpatient clinic of Pain Management.Based on the systematic analysis of the audio and video recordings of doctor-patient conversations,the study reveals the conversational practices and interactional strategies doctors use to have talks on life care with cancer patients and their families.It reveals that doctors adopt elaboration solicitations as the main conversational practice through three interactional strategies,i.e."you said"questions,fishing questions and restrictive questions.The study tries to provide a useful framework for hospice care practitioners on improving the quality of doctor-patient communication on end-of-life care with patients and families at the outpatient clinic,and promote the development of public life education in China and the popularization of hospice care concept.
In the field of cognitive linguistics,the emergence of AI language model has led to a revolution in machine translation.It can not only replace specialized translation software to translate texts,but also truly achieve cross-language communication of various forms of translation,such as oral communication,video conferencing,social media,and so on.AI language model can generate more correct and fluent translation by learning a large number of bilingual texts,mastering the grammar,vocabulary and expression of multiple languages.The current neural network machine translation system imitates the function of human brain and simulates a large number of neurons with the help of computer so that it can understand the language and generate high quality translation.Although it's superior to traditional machine translation,it can make some mistakes due to misunderstanding.The fundamental reason for the problem is that the pre-training of AI language model overlooks the ethical parameters of the source language.Therefore,the neural network machine translation can understand the ethical nuance of the source and target languages by setting ethical parameters for word and word pairing selection so as to effectively correct the ethical errors in the translation.
Based on a large-scale corpus of funeral discourse,this study quantitatively analyses the historical development and thematic evolution of Chinese funeral discourse,as well as reveals the diachronic semantic changes of funeral discourse in China and the underlying factors shaping this discourse from the analytical approach of culturomics.By examining the relative frequencies of terms,such as"funeral reform"and"funeral policies"from 1978 to 2022,the study reveals the diachronic attention changes in the corpus.There is a significant difference in the overall number,that is,the news media's attention to"funeral reform"is much higher than"funeral policy".Funeral working conferences and policy papers are important factors in drawing media's attention.From the diachronic changes of high-frequency and theme,it can be seen that the social cognition and concept of funeral have undergone a gradual evolution from reforming traditional funeral forms and body placement to the quality of funeral services and green ecological environmental protection.For the process of urbanization and the limited land resources,environmental protection and sustainable development are paid more attention.The study is helpful to understand the changes of funeral discourse in China,and provide a new research perspective and reference for the study of funeral reform and death discourse in China.
