摘要
丹麦欧登塞(Odense)南丹麦大学(University of Southern Denmark)语言交流系的斯蒂芬·考利(Stephen Cowley)教授,为"分布式语言运动"(Distributed Language Movement)和"生物生态共存观"(bio-ecological awareness)的主要倡导者。这一运动大力提倡语言学家应秉承语言、认知、人类生命(human life-world)和生物生态(bio-ecology)休戚与共的分布式语言认知观(distributed view of language and cognition),反对将语言与生态割裂对待的索绪尔式传统语言能力观。这一运动自2007年(1)发起,至今已经走过十年历程,然而中国学界对这一运动鲜有涉及。运动涉及的"第一秩序活动"(first-order activity)、"第二秩序文化建构"(second-order cultural construct)、"语言的非定位原理"(principle of non-localizability)等核心术语,以及语言、认知、生态相互依存关系等重大问题,对于中国日益兴盛的生态语言学以及认知科学都具有十分重要的借鉴意义和参考价值。更重要的是,教授本人所提出的全新概念"生物生态共存观",为应对环境恶化等典型生态危机问题提供了全新的角度和思路,值得在中国学界推广,并与中国实际情况相结合进行本土化研究。我在南丹麦大学访学期间,受《鄱阳湖学刊》委托,经斯蒂芬教授本人同意并授权后,于2016年11月对斯蒂芬教授进行了学术专访。此次访谈分为两部分。第一部分主要包括:(1)运动所倡导的基本的语言观、认知观和哲学观;(2)罗伊·哈里斯(Roy Harris)、奈杰尔·拉芬(Nigel Love)等大家对于后索绪尔语言学(post-Saussurean linguistics)所坚持的传统语言能力观的批判;(3)十年发展史上做出杰出贡献的重要代表人物。第二部分涉及:(1)"生物生态共存观"等核心术语的界定;(2)运动的发展现状;(3)其对全球生态语言学和认知科学未来发展的重要启示。
Professor Stephen Cowley from Department of Language and Communication in University of Southern Denmark, Odense, is the pioneer of Distributed Language Movement and Bio-ecological Awareness. This movement holds that linguists should strive for the distributed view of language and cognition, that is, acknowledgement of language, cognition, nature, ecology and all the living beings on the planet. It highly rejects the Saussurean perspective of language faculty, that is, the separation of language from ecology. This movement started a decade ago, and has gone through ten years of development. However, scant attention has been paid to this movement in the Chinese academia.Such key terms as first-order activity, second-order cultural construct and principle of non-localizability as well as the core questions of language, cognition and ecology involved in the movement indicate great values for the flourishing Chinese ecolinguistics and cognitive science. More importantly, bio-ecological awareness, first developed by Stephen, offers the new perspective for dealing with such typical issues in ecological crisis as environmental degradation. Therefore, this movement deserves the widespread promotion and application, in combination with practical issues in the Chinese context.I held an interview with Stephen Cowley during my visit to University of Southern Denmark in November, 2016, with the editorial authorization from Journal of Poyang Lake and personal one from Stephen. This interview was involved in two sections:(1)the rise and early development of the movement,including the basic views of language, cognition and philosophy in the movement, criticism of such influential scholars as Roy Harris and Nigel Love to traditional view of language faculty in post-Saussurean linguistics, and some key historical figures in the history of the movement;(2)the state of art of the movement and its important implications for the future horizons of global ecolinguistics and cognitive science,concerning such key terms as bio-ecological awareness in the movement.
出处
《鄱阳湖学刊》
2017年第2期36-45,共10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
