语言研究院、中国外语战略研究中心成立十周年庆祝活动
Esther Pascual 博士将给我们带来2014年在其专著Fictive Interaction: The Conversation Frame in Thought, Language, and Discourse提出的“fictive interaction”概念。Pascual博士认为人们日常生活中脱口而出的语言,比如“为什么是我?”、“真的吗?”、“是吗?”、“原来如此”等是一种“fictive interaction”,并认为这是一种基本的认知现象,一种无所不在的话语结构机制,一种可能的普遍语法结构,也是一种有效的交际策略。
Stemming from the assumption that social interaction is an essential aspect of human existence, I argue that there is a conversational basis for thought and language. Specifically, I discuss the latest research on what I call fictive interaction (Pascual 2002, 2014), that is the use of the frame of ordinary conversation as a means to structure: the conceptualization of reality (construing dance as a conversation), discourse (monologues organized as dialogues), and grammar (direct
speech compounds “why me? attitude”). I suggest that fictive interaction is a fundamental cognitive phenomenon, a ubiquitous discourse-structuring devise, a possibly universal linguistic construction, and an effective communicative strategy in both expert communication and language pathology. To support this claim, I present a cross-linguistic study involving a wide variety of unrelated languages (spoken and signed, with and without a written code) and modes of communication (oral, written, visual). The communicative data discussed ranges from the ancient Chinese philosophical text Zhuangzi (4th BC) to language pathology (i.e. a naturalistic and an elicitation study conversations of the speech of Brazilian and Chinese children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder). I hope to show that the intimate relation between language and interaction is reflected in cognition, discourse, and grammar, and thus that the Conversation Frame (with an Addresser, Addressee, Message, etc.) is a fundamental cognitive model.
主持:余华 博士(上海外国语大学语言研究院)