文化與認知系列講座之四

“Standing: An unnoticed constraint on commitment to an utterance”

Speaker: Dr Claudia Strauss

Time: June 22, Monday, 3-5pm

Venue: Xichang Hall, 211, South Campus, SYSU

ABSTRACT

Cultural standing is an unappreciated pragmatic constraint on the way opinions are voiced. The cultural standing of a view is its acceptance in an opinion community. This approach to discourse analysis draws upon the work of Bakhtin and Bourdieu. Expressing awareness of weak cultural standing is different from epistemic modalization to express uncertainty (Lyons 1977) and from mitigating as a politeness strategy (Brown & Levinson 1987).  I discuss four points on a cultural standing continuum: highly controversial, debatable, common opinion, and taken for granted. I argue that in many U.S. speech communities distinctive discourse elements are expected depending on the place of one’s view along that cultural standing continuum. 

Claudia Strauss教授是當前美國最著名的認知和心理人類學家之一，也是人類學在更為廣泛的認知科學中的代言人之一，曾任美國心理人類學協會會長和美國科學基金會學術指導委員會成員. 其專長領域為語言和心理人類學。她的研究将語言學、人類學和心理學綜合在一起，探讨如何從日常語言交流的細節中發現認知的文化結構，以及語言，文化和認知之間微妙複雜的聯系。Strauss教授曾主持過七項由美國國家科學基金會,溫拿格倫人類學基金會(全世界最大的人類學基金會), 美國學者聯盟以及Russell Sage 基金會資助的多學科的認知科學研究項目. Strauss教授曾在北卡羅萊納大學, 杜克大學和布朗大學等世界名校任教，常年講授心理人類學, 語言分析與文化認知，認知人類學和認知科學等課程.