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讲座一: A ‘do-it-yourself’ construction: Forms and functions of fictive interaction across languages and discourse genres　

主讲人：Dr. Esther Pascual，University of Groningen　　

主持人：马博森教授　　

时间：2014年5月5日（周一）9:30

地点：浙江大学紫金港校区东五201（中）　　

讲座二：‘Say it with a conversation’: Fictive interaction as cognitive, discursive, and linguistic phenomenon

主讲人：Dr. Esther Pascual, University of Groningen　　

主持人：马博森教授　　

时间：2014年5月6日（周二）14:00

地点：浙江大学紫金港校区东五201（东）　　

讲座摘要：　　

1. A ‘do-it-yourself’ construction: Forms and functions of fictive interaction across languages and discourse genres

Abstract:

This talk focuses on verbal fictive interaction, namely the use of the conversation frame to structure grammar (Pascual 2002, 2006, in press). This becomes manifest in non-genuine question-answer and direct speech constructions, which may appear at: (i) the inter-sentential level (e.g. “Interested? Call us”), (ii) the sentential level (e.g. “Why bother?”), and (iii) the intra-sentential level (e.g. “the ‘I’m better than you are’ attitude”). 

Based on my own database and a large bibliographic study, I suggest that fictive interaction occurs in a large number of unrelated languages for expressing information structure (e.g. topic, focus, conditionality) as well as various meanings or functions (e.g. emotions, causality, future tense). No language was found without it (Pascual in press). A clear difference was identified between the spoken/signed vs. the written modality. Interactional constructions tend to be most frequent in speech than in writing (cf. Tannen 1982; Mayes 1990), and be most grammaticalized in languages that are only or mainly used in direct interaction (cf. Güldemann & von Roncador 2002; Pascual in press). A preliminary corpus study of the Hebrew Bible further indicates that interactional structures are far from novel, colloquial, or typical of the speech of the youth (Sandler & Pascual in prep.).

2. ‘Say it with a conversation’: Fictive interaction as cognitive,discursive and linguistic phenomenon

Abstract:

I claim that there is a conversational basis to cognition, discourse, and grammar, grounded in the primacy of conversation (Clark 1996). The idea that the structure of discourse and language reflects their interactional dimension is certainly not a new one (cf. Voloshinov 1929; Bakhtin 1975; Vygotsky 1934). However, it has taken the fields of linguistics a long time to integrate this basic idea into the study of discursive and grammatical structure (but see Du Bois 2001; Verhagen 2005; Zlatev et al. 2008).

I will discuss the notion of fictive interaction, namely the use of the conversation frame in order to structure mental, discursive, and linguistic processes (Pascual 2002, 2006, in press). Combining the discussion of earlier studies with my own data, I will suggest that thought is interactionally structured, and that we conceptualize the world around us partly in conversational terms. This, I sustain, is reflected in an underlying interactional structure to monologic texts. I further argue that fictive interaction is a successful communicative strategy in various types of discourse from different cultures and historical times. I conclude that we should take the conversational turn — rather than the sentence — as the most basic unit of linguistic analysis (Pascual in press).

个人简介:　　

Dr. Esther Pascual (1972) is assistant professor of language and communication at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. from VU University Amsterdam in 2003 with a dissertation in which she first proposed the concept ‘fictive interaction’. Dr. Pascual has received various prestigious research grants to study the phenomenon and has published extensively on fictive interaction across languages and genres in national and international peer-reviewed journals. Her new book “Fictive Interaction: The Conversation Frame in Thought, Language, and Discourse” will be published by John Benjamins in the summer of 2014.

Dr. Pascual is founding and board member of the Belgium and Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA) and the European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue (ESTIDIA), and permanent member of the International Committee of the Spanish Association of Cognitive Linguistics (AELCO) and the Language, Culture, and Mind conference series (LCM). She is also founding co-editor of the online peer-review journal Language Under Discussion and editorial board member of Veredas: Journal of Linguistic Studies, as well as a regular reviewer for Text & Talk, Journal of Pragmatics, Language & Cognition, Mouton de Gruyter, and John Benjamins, among others. She is also reviewer of research projects for The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Research Council KU Leuven, and the Catalan University and Research Funding Foundation (A GAUR).

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