講座題目：From Structure to Context. Modern Linguistics from a Distance
主講人：Dirk Geeraerts教授
講座時間：2018年3月20日（周二）下午2:30-
講座地點：外國語學(xué)院8號樓108報告廳
舉辦單位: 外國語學(xué)院
專家簡介：
Dirk Geeraerts,，比利時魯汶大學(xué)語言學(xué)系主任、《認知語言學(xué)》(Cognitive Linguistics)期刊的創(chuàng)刊主編,，《牛津認知語言學(xué)手冊》(The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics)主編,，曾任國際認知語言學(xué)學(xué)會主席?，F(xiàn)兼任德國Mouton de Gruyter出版社的“認知語言學(xué)研究”（Cognitive Linguistics Research）系列叢書主編。主要研究興趣涉及認知語言學(xué),、詞匯語義學(xué)和詞典學(xué)等領(lǐng)域,。
講座內(nèi)容簡介：
This talk describes the evolution of 20th and 21st century linguistics in terms of three main theoretical periods: structuralist, generativist, and functional-cognitive. I will argue that the transition from structuralism to generativism involves a process of decontextualisation of the grammar, in the sense that the ideal of a formal, autonomous grammar cuts off grammatical description from the social context of language variation, the discursive context of language use, and the cognitive context of meaning and experience. This decontextualisation trend takes a more specific form in a set of oppositions, with form taking precedence over function and meaning, syntax over lexicon, the linguistic system over language use, innateness over interactive acquisition, universality over language variation, symbolic modelling over probabilistic description, and introspection over empirical observation. Next, by focusing on Cognitive Linguistics, I will show how these preferences are reversed in the cognitive-functional framework. Finally, I will argue that the succession between decontextualising and recontextualising approaches needs to be seen in a broader historical context: that of the evolution of cognitive science on the one hand, and that of 19th century linguistics on the other.
