From the perspective of intersubjectivity, this study examines English general extenders in interpersonal interaction and their implications for cross-cultural communication. Based on spoken language corpora from existing literature and by integrating politeness strategy theory with the Gricean Cooperative Principle, the research findings reveal that general extenders exert pragmatic functions guided by politeness strategies, which are rooted in intersubjectivity and closely related to the addressee's self-image, covering both positive and negative politeness. Specifically, conjunctive extenders enhance social closeness through shared experiences (positive politeness) and perform a hedging function regarding informativeness in line with the Quantity Maxim; disjunctive ones mitigate tone via alternative possibilities (negative politeness) and maintain caution about information accuracy based on the Quality Maxim. Their intersubjective function relies on the subjectively assumed shared knowledge, experiences and conceptual frameworks between communicators, enabling information omission and listener inference. Mastery of these extenders facilitates smooth cross-cultural communication by negotiating shared knowledge, and the research findings provide solid theoretical and practical support for cultivating socio-pragmatic competence in EFL teaching.

In the context of the information age, higher foreign language education urgently needs to explore innovative teaching models centered on ability development and shift to focus on ability development. Based on the concept of outcome-based education (OBE), this paper constructs a blended teaching model for English translation courses, achieving systematic cultivation of translation ability through reverse design of course objectives, integration of online and offline teaching links, and establishment of a multi-dimensional evaluation system, which cannot ignore its fundamental role. Empirical research shows that this model significantly improves students' translation skills (the average score of the experimental group is 85.6 vs. the control group is 76.3), self-study ability and professional quality, and the student satisfaction rate is over 85%. The research confirms that the integration of OBE and blended teaching has a significant effect on achieving precise translation talent cultivation. It provides strong support for the reform of the foreign language curriculum.

This paper examines the late floral paintings of Odilon Redon, produced between the 1910s and the final years of his life. It argues that Redon's floral paintings function as phenomenological events that actively restructure the viewer's experience of viewing and enable intersubjectivity with the artist. Methodologically, the paper employs a phenomenological approach grounded in Husserl's concept of epoché. Rather than decoding iconography or tracing symbolic meaning, the analysis attends to how Redon's paintings suspend the viewer's habitual reception. Through the intensely saturated flowers in formation and the presence of eye-like flowers that appear to return the viewer's gaze, Redon disrupts representational reading and destabilises the conventional subject-object hierarchy of viewing. By situating Redon's floral paintings at the intersection of Symbolist aesthetics and phenomenological experience, this paper ultimately argues that the meaning of art emerges not through language or symbolic representations, but through intersubjectivity, which remains indescribable.

This study looks at the role and performance of Chinese-Spanish court interpreters, focusing on differences in service quality in legal field. It highlights the interpreter's key role in making sure communication which is accurate and the court is fair. All the data from an online survey of interpreters with different amounts of experience gave ideas about their backgrounds, challenges, and views on current practices. The results show that court interpreters are needed to bridge language and culture gaps but reveal mixed quality in translation due to a lack of standard rules and regular checking systems. These findings show the need for organized training, official licensing, and continuous testing which will helps interpreters work better. This study offers advice to improve interpreter training and habits, aiming to raise service quality.

Language support is a key part of China's poverty alleviation and national development work. Its main goal is to improve the language abilities of vulnerable people in less developed areas. Better language skills help these people communicate better. They can take part in social activities. They can create more economic value.This method brings many social and economic benefits. It provides more job opportunities for disadvantaged people. It helps them make more money. It makes different social groups more united.This work follows the idea of comprehensive development. Improving language skills is an important way to reduce poverty. It helps individuals and regions get rid of poverty more quickly. It develops the study of language economics. It increases the areas of related research. It improves the modern level of language management. Language poverty alleviation has special features that fit China's situation.Many scholars have carried out research after the founding of the People's Republic of China. They got many useful results in language poverty alleviation.

In the situation of a rapid increase in English-medium instruction (EMI) in world higher education, we are to examine the public universities in Hong Kong, within that multilingual post-colonial context, English is the major source of teaching and academic capital, and Cantonese also has its place. Previously most of the research has concentrated on the macro policies and ideologies that offer symbolic power for English yet seldom focused on the views of local students and the role of Cantonese in English Medium instruction (EMI) classrooms. Ten local college students are recruited through purposeful homogeneous sampling, and data are collected from semi-structured interviews and then subjected to reflective analysis. It is discovered that students consider English as an important capital source for entering the global world and use Cantonese inside and outside the class as the basis for understanding so as to reduce costs and reduce the communication risks in collaborative tasks. AI tools further make English an efficient source of information, elevating the status of Cantonese for quick understanding and community connection, thus creating the Third Space. The study advocate that Cantonese is a local resource instead of an interference factor, and we mean to make EMI courses and language policies make use of the local language as an interactive resource, thus reducing language burdens, enhancing engagement and learning effects.

Nowadays, with the popularity of social media, information shifted from the previous crisis dissemination method to a more complex and rapid online spread. Public sentiment had a greater impact on shaping corporate reputation and market results. This study examines how social media emotions spread on the Internet and influence public perception during corporate crises and conducts a comparative analysis using two different cases. Due to data access restrictions, this article presents an analysis of manually collected tweet samples: 52 tweets from Starbucks' 2024 union movement and 30 tweets from Tesla's November 2023 vehicle recall. Manually mark the emotions as positive, neutral or negative based on the attitude expressed in the tweet to the company and events. The survey results reveal significant differences: Starbucks' tweets are mainly positive (56%), with strong public support for its workers, while Tesla's discourse on product safety issues is polarized (37% positive, 40% negative). These patterns indicate that labor disputes generate more persistent sympathy, while discussions triggered by product safety crises are more objective and balanced. This research contributes to crisis communication literature by emphasizing the importance of conducting specific analyses based on different types of crises and provides practical significance for enterprises' crisis response strategies and investors' decision-making. The limitations of this paper include a small sample size and the lack of quantitative analysis, which points out the direction for future research on larger datasets.

The demand for sporting activities among persons with disabilities is steadily increasing. Swimming, being highly adaptable and beneficial for both physical and mental well-being, has become the preferred activity for many. However, the overall provision of accessible services in swimming facilities remains significantly inadequate. The physical environment, facilities configuration, service process and signage guidance are not enough, which not only affect the use experience and safety of the disabled, but also cause the gap between their actual needs and the service supply of the venue. This paper focuses on the optimization of accessible service design in the whole process of swimming pool. Combining the principles of inclusive design and universal design, drawing lessons from the case studies and experiences of several accessible swimming pools, and through the field investigation of the swimming pool of Nanjing Olympic Sports Center, this paper systematically analyzes the accessible defects in the current service process. The research results show that strengthening physical facilities, guidance system, service procedures and user experience are all important ways to improve service quality.

Representing a huge cultural shift, Black Myth: Wukong is the first AAA video game from China. This is the first time profit-driven digital content is being shifted to a culturally significant digital export. This paper aims to analyze this game's ability to create cross-cultural communication by looking at the cultural craftsmanship and the interactive mechanics of the game and how they work together. Four-stage imagology model and Media Richness Theory were utilized to guide this analysis. This research argues that Black Myth's game architecture, character design, and game music, create an audiovisual design, which uses traditional Chinese culture, specifically from the Journey to the West, a 16th century novel. The game also uses a level of difficulty in the combat system to create a flow state in the player. Besides, this paper claims that this motivates players outside of China to immerse themselves in the culture, and is not a system designed for players to only observe the culture. It is argued that for many of these players, their first experience is some level of immersion, which creates curiosity and ultimately results in cultural immersion at some level. AAA video games are the only media that really create cultural environments and provide a way to transform cross-cultural communication from a one-way model, to an interactive model.

This paper offers a critical review of feminist theories of marriage and motherhood, examining their conceptual foundations and cultural applicability across Western and East Asian contexts. Western liberal feminist frameworks have largely evaluated marriage and motherhood through the lens of individual autonomy, equality, and self-realization, highlighting structural constraints such as the gendered division of labor, the motherhood wage penalty, and the privatization of care. These autonomy-centered approaches have been instrumental in exposing systemic gender inequalities. However, their underlying assumptions about individual subjectivity generate theoretical tensions when applied beyond Western societies. In many East Asian contexts shaped by Confucian ethics and family-centered moral orders, marriage and motherhood are embedded within relational obligations and interdependent kinship structures. Rather than prioritizing individual autonomy, feminist scholarship in these settings emphasizes relational subjectivity, internalized gender norms, and culturally embedded forms of governance. By synthesizing key debates on autonomy, maternal subjectivity, affective labor, and relational patriarchy, this review identifies three persistent conceptual tensions: universalism versus cultural specificity, autonomy versus relational subjectivity, and external patriarchy versus internalized governance. The paper argues for the development of culturally situated feminist frameworks that integrate commitments to gender justice with sensitivity to the relational and contextual dimensions of women's lived experiences.