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AbstractThis article investigates the practical application of Peirce's pragmaticism in the social sciences through the analysis of commercial signboards as signs. We find that Peirce's semiotic theory is of great instructive significance to a specific case, but has its limitations, especially in the study of human semiotics or human philology. Peirce's theory can be conceived in two ways: using commercial signboards as cases to explain Peirce's semiotic classification system; and using Peirce's semiotic theory as a tool to analyze and study the features of an object in special status. We focus on the practical application of this theory.

Les jeunes Africains qui étudient en Chine sont censés contribuer à jeter un « pont » entre ce pays et le leur. Cependant, leur expérience est rarement envisagée comme le socle sur lequel est bâti ce pont. Cet article s'appuie sur une enquête qualitative et exploratoire menée à Chengdu en 2022 alors que les frontières sont encore fermées en raison de la pandémie de Covid-19. Les témoignages recueillis auprès d'étudiants africains francophones montrent l'ambiguïté de l'accueil reçu, les arbitrages difficiles qu'ils doivent faire concernant l'apprentissage du chinois, ou encore les ressorts parfois mal compris d'une sociabilité peu sinisée. Un éclairage sur ces difficultés permet ainsi de poser des premiers jalons afin de repenser « par le bas » les échanges universitaires afro-chinois.

We explored the impact of optimism on social creativity and the mediating roles of hope and creative self-efficacy(CSE) in this relationship. Participants were 766 college students at 8 universities in China, who completed the Social Creativity Questionnaire for College Students, the
Life Orientation Test-Revised, the Adult Dispositional HopeScale, and the Short Scale of Creative Self. The results showed that optimism was not a significant predictor of the social creativity of college students, but its effect could be indirectly predicted through the individual mediators
of CSE and hope,as well as the chain mediating effect of CSE and hope. Thus, we can conclude that optimism, CSE, and hope influence the social creativity of Chinese college students.

Understanding companies' preferences for various domestic policy instruments is crucial to designing and planning Sectoral Market Mechanism (SMM) in China. Based on a detailed overview of domestic policy instruments under SMM, this paper evaluates corporate preferences for diverse domestic policy instruments and identifies potential influencing factors through econometric analysis. The data were collected from 113 respondents in all 11 prefecture-level cities of Shanxi province, China. Regarding policy instruments under the system of government receiving tradable units, corporate energy saving potential, learning capacity and companies' characteristics have shown significant influences on companies' preferences. Dissemination and the popularization of knowledge are also important to help companies learn how to improve energy efficiency. In terms of policy measures with voluntary installation-level targets, corporate competition level, organizational size and ownership are the main factors influencing companies' preferences. Reducing inequality in the distribution of responsibility is especially important to gain companies' support. Under the policy with mandatory installation-level targets, it suggests that policymakers should focus on status of energy use management and internationalization orientation. Policy instruments familiar to companies that are able to relieve corporate financial pressures might be good options to gain higher acceptance. Moreover, our results show that it is very important to choose an issuance frequency of one to three years under sectoral crediting.