文化与认知系列讲座之四

“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教授是当前美国最著名的认知和心理人类学家之一，也是人类学在更为广泛的认知科学中的代言人之一，曾任美国心理人类学协会会长和美国科学基金会学术指导委员会成员. 其专长领域为语言和心理人类学。她的研究将语言学、人类学和心理学综合在一起，探讨如何从日常语言交流的细节中发现认知的文化结构，以及语言，文化和认知之间微妙复杂的联系。Strauss教授曾主持过七项由美国国家科学基金会,温拿格伦人类学基金会(全世界最大的人类学基金会), 美国学者联盟以及Russell Sage 基金会资助的多学科的认知科学研究项目. Strauss教授曾在北卡罗莱纳大学, 杜克大学和布朗大学等世界名校任教，常年讲授心理人类学, 语言分析与文化认知，认知人类学和认知科学等课程.