luge, stele, at issue, repayment, phatic expression

秦始皇石刻：早期中國的文本與儀式

作者 : [美]柯馬丁
出版社:上海古籍出版社
原作名: The Stele Inscriptions of Ch'in Shih-huang : Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Imperial Representation
譯者 : 劉倩譯 / 楊治宜 / 梅麗校
出版年: 2015-

Chinese Group Calls on Japan to Hand Over Tang-Era Stele

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  Courtesy of Wang Renfu
  An undated photograph of the Tang-era Honglujing Stele on the grounds of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
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  Courtesy of Wang Renfu
  Inscriptions on the Honglujing Stele.

語言學大師Jakobson提出的名詞。也就是說文本中敘事者為了拉近與讀者的距離，會突然跳出情境，以第二人稱方式直接向讀者發話。即語言學上所謂的「寒暄功能」，藉以增進敘事者和讀者之間的距離，讓讀者有一種敘事者就在他耳邊嘰哩咕嚕的「親切感」。

你聽過這種功能嗎？（此即fonction phatique一例）

In linguistics, a phatic expression /ˈfætɨk/ is one whose only function is to perform a social task, as opposed to conveying information.^[1]


The term was coined by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski in the early 1900s from Greek phanein: to show oneself, appear.

Understanding

The utterance of a phatic expression is a kind of speech act.
In Roman Jakobson's work, 'Phatic' communication is that which concerns the channel of communication, for instance when one says "I can't hear you, you're breaking up" in the middle of a cell phone conversation. In the modern context, this usage appears in online communities and more specifically on micro-blogging.^[2][3]
In speech communication the term means "small talk" (conversation for its own sake) and has also been called "grooming talking".^[4]

SPORTS | Video Feature Going Uphill: The Luge Event at Sochi Luge is often the fastest event in the Olympics - so fast that track designers for Sochi tried to slow it down.

Nestorian missionaries were firmly established in China during the early part of the Tang Dynasty (618–907); the Chinese source known as the Nestorian Stele describes a mission under a Persian proselyte named Alopen as introducing Nestorian Christianity to China in 635. In the 7th century, the Church had grown to have two Nestorian archbishops, and over 20 bishops east of the Iranian border of the Oxus River.^[18]

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這件題為「圖騰柱」（Steles）的裝置作品出自東倫敦藝術家奇斯·威爾森（Keith Wilson）之手。雖然叫圖騰柱，這些巨型「蠟筆」的材料跟水上導航浮標的材料是一樣的，輕巧而耐久。

ste·le (stl, stl)

n.

1. also ste·la (stl) pl. steles also ste·lae (-l) An upright stone or slab with an inscribed or sculptured surface, used as a monument or as a commemorative tablet in the face of a building.

2. stele (stl, stl) The central core of tissue in the stem or root of a vascular plant, consisting of the xylem and phloem together with supporting tissues.

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[Greek stl, pillar; see stel- in Indo-European roots.]

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stelar (-lr) adj.

stele[ste・le]

• 発音記号[stíːli]

[名]（複 -lai 〔-lai〕, -les 〔-liz〕）

1 （碑文・彫刻などを刻んだ）石柱, 石碑；墓石.

2 （石造建築物の）銘額. （またsté・la 〔stíl〕）

3 〔stíl〕 《植物》中心柱.
Today’s logo on Google was not meant to be tasteless I’m sure, but some people thought it was. It was actually a beautiful looking logo with a luger in place of the first logo. However, some people think Google’s logo was published too soon after the death of Olympian, Nodar Kumaritashvili, during his last practice luge run before the opening ceremonies in Vancouver.

The new logo is a snowboarder, and is much more appropriate for today.

luge (lūzh)

n.

1. A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying supine.
2. A competition in which these sleds race against a clock.

[French dialectal, from Medieval Latin sludia, perhaps of Celtic origin.]

luge luge v.
luger lug'er n.

luge

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Pronunciation: /luːʒ /

noun

• 1a light toboggan for one or two people, ridden in a sitting or supine position.
  

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• 1.1 [mass noun] a sport in which competitors make a timed descent of a course riding luges: the finals of the women’s luge
  

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  • Perhaps the reason I prefer downhill skiing, luge, cross-country, speed skating, and other such sports in the Winter Olympics is that judging vagaries don't affect them.
  • Hayden's interest in luge started when she saw the sport for the first time while watching the 1994 Olympics on television.
  • Support for winter sports like the luge and bobsledding are being reduced because it is recognized Taiwan is unlikely to do well - since it has no snow slopes to speak of and training in the US or Europe is prohibitively expensive.