Volume 90

The inheritance and protection of intangible cultural heritage contributes to the revitalisation of rural culture and the formation of rural emotional communities. This study starts from the theoretical perspective of interaction ritual chain, constructs the interaction ritual chain of Xiangtan Fire Dragon Dance, reveals the double digital intergenerational gap formed by the lack of physical field and symbolic cognitive dispelling of the youth group, Furthermore, analyses the micro-cognitive process in the interaction of the Fire Dragon Dance by combining the theory of embodied interaction, discovers the main reason for the decline of Xiangtan Fire Dragon Dance is the huge change of the urban-rural structure of the modern society and the development of modernity, which disrupts the chain of interaction rituals. Through technical embodiment, reconstruct the rhythmic entrainment and, through multimodal feedback, strengthen the authority of sacred objects. A mediated approach is provided for the inheritance of rural intangible cultural heritage.

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Alice Walker, the renowned African American female writer, has long focused on the survival conditions and self-construction of black women. Through the use of multi-perspective narratives in her works, she vividly portrays the psychological traumas endured by this vulnerable group under dual oppression from race and gender. Her novel The Temple of My Familiar employs fragmented forms such as dialogues, diaries, oral histories, letters, and monologues to depict key characters like Lissie, Hal, Fanny, Suwelo, Carlotta, Arveyda and Zedé. Through interwoven narrative threads, it tells stories of the trauma and recovery experienced by these female protagonists. For instance, Fanny deciphers ancestral diaries and oral histories, revealing the struggles and pain endured by generations of women within her family under sexual violence, racial discrimination, and cultural fragmentation. Meanwhile, through the transmission of past-life memories, female characters in the novel gradually establish unique dialogic relationships with others, achieving post-traumatic healing and the mending of emotional wounds. Ultimately, they transform the dilapidated “temple” into a spiritual community that integrates black culture, feminine spirituality, and harmonious ecology. Therefore, this paper employs Judith Herman’s trauma theory to deeply analyze individual and collective trauma manifestations in the novel, exploring how memory and dialogue serve as therapeutic sources providing spiritual comfort and strength for women. In addition, the author hopes to enrich the current academic research on trauma literature by analyzing the multiple relationships between trauma, memory transmission and dialogue healing, and to provide valuable theoretical reference for the field.

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The puzzle of informative identity has been a widely debated logical issue for a long time. To be more specific, the problem of how people should define the exact referent of identity statements such as “A is B” remains mysterious. When the same object is referred to by different names, this kind of identity statement seems a priori and non-informative. In addition, defining identity statements as connections between “names” would mean that they are relations between symbols. This nature of identity statements makes them an urgent philosophical problem. This paper argues that Bertrand Russell’s descriptivist theory provides a resolution to Gottlob Frege’s puzzle of informative identity statements by fundamentally dissolving its core assumptions, rather than merely offering an alternative argument. This paper reaches this conclusion by justifying Russellian descriptivism’s superiority over Frege’s metaphysical theory, which involves sense and reference. This paper defends descriptivism against Kripke’s objections by altering the modal functors such as “necessarily” and “possibly” in a sentence in natural languages to show that the “scope” of a sentence is controllable.

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In the context of the accelerated restructuring of the global cultural and creative industry pattern, more and more cultural brands are gradually shifting from the traditional "story-driven" model to the "symbol-driven" model. This marketing strategy, with visual symbols and emotional markers as the core not only significantly reduces the cost of content production and cultural communication, but also achieves efficient cultural output. Thus, it promotes the spread and recognition of local culture on a global scale. This study takes Bubble Mart and Disney's Duffy family as the main cases to systematically analyze their brand construction and communication paths, deconstructing around three dimensions: the symbolic layer, the emotional layer, and the cultural layer. At the symbolic level, focus on character design, visual systems, and the identification of IP symbols. At the emotional level, analyze the emotional connections, community identity, and consumer resonance generated by users through symbols. At the cultural level, explore the cultural values behind symbols and analyze how local aesthetic elements can be expressed internationally, exploring how Chinese cultural and creative brands achieve cultural dissemination through a “background-free” symbolization strategy, and how to shape a leading Chinese cultural brand and provide theoretical references and practical paths for the international development of Chinese cultural and creative brands.

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Logical thinking is the fundamental form and tool of human rational activity, giving rise to representative logical systems in Eastern and Western philosophical histories. Aristotelian logic, which originated from ancient Greek rational reflection on nature and society, aimed to discover the truth. Tibetan Buddhist debate traditions, rooted in the Indian Nyāya tradition, are based on the Buddhist goal of “liberation through wisdom”. This paper examines the similarities and differences between the “pratītyasamutpāda” and the “syllogism”, arguing that although they shape rational paradigms of Eastern and Western traditions respectively, they complement each other significantly. The formal advantages of Aristotelian logic can facilitate the modern expression of debate, while the context sensitivity and dialectical principles of debate can compensate for formal logic’s neglect of the cognitive subject. In cross-cultural dialogue, these two systems respectively embody “scientific rationality” and “religious wisdom”. The paper suggests that research combining both frameworks has the potential to transcend single-cultural logical paradigms and provide significant insights for contemporary logic and philosophy. Future exploration can delve into integrating Buddhist debate with modern cognitive science, making cross-cultural and cross-traditional comparisons to construct a more inclusive and diverse global logical system.

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This paper aims to examine whether agents are to be held morally responsible for their actions in a deterministic world. In order to do so, the paper puts the most demanding species of moral responsibility, accountability, at its center and argues for a compatibilist framework grounded in guidance control. Where actions issue from an owned, adequately reasons-responsive mechanism. Main central concepts are explicitly clarified, such as leeway vs. source-hood interpretations of what is necessary to be free, and introducing different perspectives on the topic at hand. It then evaluates the Compatibilism argument against the Incompatibilism, including notable classical arguments and critiques. Building on Fischer and Ravizza’s model, the paper defends reasons-responsiveness and historical ownership as sufficient for responsibility in the absence of “freewill.” This paper seeks to align theory with intuition, such that the intuitive sense of morality does not diminish and preserve the desert-based evaluation, the integrity of blame, praise, and sanction within a causally ordered world.

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