摘要
分布式语言观将语言看作多层级协调机制,并对语言学主流观点提出质疑:一方面反对主流语言学的语言"符号观",即言语结构在心智大脑内部表述;另一方面承认语言既具有集体性和个体性,同时具有思维感知性。语言分布于人类活动中。持语言分布观的研究者,对语言科学发展做出两大贡献:首先,语言不再归为大脑神经机理,而是互动性发展史;其次,人类彼此之间缺乏了解,可借助"间距"概念解决困境。因此,这些进展可为兼收并蓄的生态语言学议题提供丰富的意义内涵。同时,语言学家可致力于生物生态共存观研究,并受益无穷。
In viewing language as multi-scale co-ordination, a distributed view challenges central postulates of linguistics. It not only denies that language is essentially 'symbolic'but also that verbal patterns are represented inside minds or brains. Rather, language is, at once, collective, individual and constitutive of the feeling of thinking. It is distributed between us. Those pursuing this view have made two major advances.First, language is traced to, not a neural faculty, but a history of interactivity. Second, because humans constantly cope with lack of understanding, they have come to rely on time-ranging. I conclude that this offers a rich view of meaning to an inclusive ecolinguistic agenda. Much can be gained, I argue, if linguists strive to encourage bio-ecological awareness.
出处
《鄱阳湖学刊》
2017年第2期22-35,共14页
Journal of Poyang Lake
基金
国家留学基金委西部地区特别人才培养项目(留金法[2015]5103)的最终译介成果之一
