Graphic novel is a composite narrative medium in which words and images work together to construct meaning. It has both visual literariness and visual artistry. Its core lies in generating reading experience different from pure text narrative through the interaction of "discourse" and "image". Based on this, this paper takesOf Mice and Men and Hereas research objects, and analyzes the formal organization and style presentation mechanisms of the two works in graphic narrative construction from two dimensions: narrative form and visual style. The study finds thatOf Mice and Menmainly takes character relationships and event progression as the main narrative line, and strengthens the emotional tension and atmosphere expression of literary narrative through scene scheduling, picture rhythm and visual style.Hereforms a narrative mode dominated by spatial structure and visual organization through time superposition, page segmentation and visual repetition in a fixed space. Thus, narrative form and visual style in graphic novels are not separate levels, but an expression system that works together around the core narrative concept of the work. They cooperate with each other to construct a graphic narrative mechanism centered on story experience and reading perception, and form their own unique aesthetic experience. The study on the relationship between narrative form and visual style of graphic novels helps to further understand the narrative strategies and visual expression logic of graphic novels.

How Social Media Reshapes Historical Knowledge: Changes in the Spread, Value and Public Debate of History Online. Based on previous studies in media memory, public history, algorithmic amplification, and online misinformation, this paper will present four qualitative case studies of recent online historical debates: the Blair-Brown relationship within New Labour, the use of the Iraq War as a reference point for discussions on American interventionism and Venezuela, debates over the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in response to Donald Trump's criticisms of the alliance, and Holocaust denial on digital platforms. Not all social media use needs to be reflected in school activities. Its impact is relatively small; it is a personalisation of institutional history, a mobilisation of the past for political purposes, a method of correcting problems through historical knowledge, and it also shows the gap between what scholars believe and what the public believes. Therefore, this paper will not ask whether social media are good or bad sources for history. On the other hand, social media is also providing different circumstances for learning about history and assessing it. Source criticism, contextual comparison and evidentiary discipline need to be learned by young children to grasp history in the digital age.

This study interrogates how Chinese American women city supervisors discursively construct ethnic and gendered identities through their Facebook political communication. Drawing on a sociocultural linguistic approach to identity, the study conducts a discursive analysis of 370 posts published by two supervisors on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors between November 2024 and January 2026, aiming to elucidate the mechanisms through which discursive narratives fashion identity and what sociocultural factors make them possible. Two correlated political identities are coded: the context-sensitive ethnic navigator, who strategically shifts among Chinese-specific, pan-ethnic, and ethnically neutral registers depending on issue context, and the care-oriented female leader, who constructs governance legitimacy predominantly through covert care discourse, supplemented at particular symbolic moments by overt celebration of female role models. To account for the amalgamation of these two identities, this study proposes an overarching identity assemblage—the compassionate guardian—that transforms ethnic visibility work and gendered governance into a distinctive form of political authority, sustained through Facebook's media affordances. The findings illuminate how Chinese American women negotiate the intersecting constraints of racialized and gendered political expectations at the local level, advancing scholarship on minority women's political communication in municipal politics.

This essay critically compares articulation-based and perception-based approaches to sound change. Articulation-based accounts explain sound change primarily through production pressures such as coarticulation, reduction, assimilation, lenition, and gestural timing, offering strong explanations for gradual and phonetically natural changes. In contrast, perception-based accounts emphasise the role of listener interpretation, normalisation, cue weighting, and reanalysis, making them especially useful for explaining changes such as dissimilation and perceptual misattribution. This essay evaluates the strengths and limitations of both perspectives in terms of explanatory scope, evidence, directionality, actuation, and diffusion. It argues that neither approach alone can fully explain the emergence, selection, and stabilisation of sound change. While production pressures often provide the phonetic source and direction of many gradual changes, perception-based mechanisms are essential for understanding listener reanalysis and certain non-reductive developments. The essay, therefore, supports an interactionist position: sound change is best explained through a type- and stage-sensitive model that integrates articulation, perception, lexical diffusion, and wider social and systemic factors.

The rejuvenation of time-honored brands faces dual challenges of upholding tradition and pursuing innovation. Taking Beijing Daoxiangcun Zero Store as an example, this paper constructs an analytical framework covering four dimensions: brand cultural inheritance, brand fun richness, in-store service and creative activities, based on brand authenticity and customer experience management theories. Empirical tests are conducted using factor analysis and regression analysis with 314 questionnaire data samples. The results show that all four dimensions have a significantly positive impact on purchase intention. The study reveals the synergistic mechanism of original authenticity and constructed authenticity management for time-honored brands, as well as the practical path of customer experience management, providing theoretical support and practical reference for their digital transformation.

One of the common problems faced by modern states is how to effectively build a connection mechanism between the government and the people. As a practical model of "pairing governance" with distinctive Chinese characteristics, it is increasingly playing an important role in promoting rural revitalization and development. In the process of implementing pairing policies and completing pairing tasks, the "pairing governance" behaviors of village-resident cadres show a logical shift from departmental and territorial pairing at the normative level to personalized pairing at the practical level. The practical manifestations of this shift include localized social relations, daily life interactions, and family-like assistance actions. Its personalized operation is closely related to the choice of the strategic action mechanism of "bureaucracy as the foundation, emotion as the instrument".