摘要
当前非洲大湖地区冲突研究多侧重制度、资源等表层因素,对语言与集体记忆等深层认知机制关注不足,难以解释冲突的持久性与复杂性。针对这一薄弱环节,本文提出并应用以语言和集体记忆为核心的认知分析框架,旨在揭示三类核心深层机制——殖民语言遗产对社会概念的重塑、多语环境造成的记忆断层、数字化对历史怨恨的放大,进而阐明其塑造群体认知、驱动冲突演化的内在路径。本研究通过对历史文献、政策文件和媒体内容的案例分析,选取卢旺达种族灭绝后的社会记忆重构与刚果(金)东部土地争端语义对抗等典型案例,揭示官方与民间在语言使用、记忆表达与信息传播上的差异及其影响。研究发现,语言与社会记忆是影响非洲大湖地区冲突持续和族群对立的关键因素,多语环境与历史记忆的差异导致关键社会概念的语义对抗。基于此分析,本研究识别出社交媒体仇恨言论增长、官方与民间记忆叙事分歧扩大、关键概念语义对抗性分化及指向性信息操纵四大认知预警信号。据此,提出了“语义对接”的政策与治理实践及“本土化认知安全防御体系”两大战略应对路径。此分析为理解非洲大湖地区冲突提供新视角,强调冲突治理需将语言与记忆的认知作用提升为核心干预维度,为全球多民族、多语言社会中的风险预警与可持续和平提供可操作、可复制的理论与实践启示。
Previous studies on conflicts in Africa's Great Lakes region have largely focused on surface-level drivers such as institutions and resources,while paying insufficient attention to deeper cognitive mechanisms,including language and collective memory.This limitation constrains existing explanations of the persistence and complexity of conflict.To address this gap,this article develops and applies a cognitive-analytical framework centred on language and collective memory.It seeks to uncover three core deep mechanisms:the reshaping of social concepts through colonial linguistic legacies;memory discontinuities produced by multilingual environments;and the amplification of historical grievances through digitalisation.On this basis,the article clarifies the internal pathways through which these mechanisms structure group cognition and drive conflict trajectories.Methodologically,the study conducts case-based analyses of historical documents,policy texts,and media content.It selects representative cases,including post-genocide social memory reconstruction in Rwanda and semantic contestation surrounding land disputes in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo,to examine divergences between official and vernacular practices in language use,memory articulation,and information circulation,as well as their effects.The findings indicate that language and social memory are key determinants of conflict persistence and ethnic antagonism in the Great Lakes region.Differences in historical memory within multilingual settings generate semantic confrontation over pivotal social concepts.Building on this analysis,the study identifies four cognitive early-warning indicators:the growth of hate speech on social media;widening divergences between official and popular memory narratives;polarisation in the semantic framing of key concepts;and targeted information manipulation.Accordingly,it proposes two strategic response pathways:a policy and governance approach of“semantic alignment”,and the construction of a“localised cognitive security and defence system.”This study offers a novel perspective for understanding conflict in the Great Lakes region,arguing that conflict governance should elevate the cognitive roles of language and memory to core dimensions of intervention,and providing actionable and replicable insights for risk early warning and sustainable peace in multiethnic and multilingual societies worldwide.
作者
胡学文
李彧
HU Xuewen;LI Yu(Anhui University,Hefei,Anhui 230601)
出处
《中外交流研究(中英文)》
2025年第6期1-11,共11页
International Communication Studies
关键词
认知冲突
语言
集体记忆
非洲大湖地区
认知预警
cognitive conflict
language
collective memory
African Great Lakes region
cognitive early warning
