讲座题目：Deixis and personhood: Autism, intersubjectivity, and the fluidity-to-inelasticity hypothesis
主讲嘉宾：Todd Oakley (with Đorđe Vidanović)
讲座时间：2016年6月14日（周二）上午9：00-10：30
讲座地点：紫金港校区东五-201（东）
Abstract: We present the broad outlines of theory of intersubjectivity as it pertains to the production and understanding of deixis in discourse produced by two verbal autistic subjects. After a brief philosophical and linguistic overview of deixis, we provide an outline of the intersubjectivity matrix as it normally develops. We then use this framework as a heuristic for assessing the performance of our participants as they conversed with typically developed counterparts about specific video clips. Verbal autists possess many of the intersubjectivity skills required for normal conversation but lack the ability to deploy stable reference points when using the deictic scheme to communicate about situations in which either the topic or the audience are displaced in time and space. We present the Fluidity to Inelasticity Hypothesis (FIH) in which an initially fluid and chaotic use of deictic forms settles into a stable but inflexible
deictic scheme.
Todd Oakley is Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. He is a cognitive scientist trained in rhetorical theory and linguistics who examines the intersection of higher-order cognition, symbolic systems, and sociality. His two most recent books are Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction (2008) and From Attention to Meaning: Explorations in Semiotics, Linguistics, and Rhetoric (2009). He currently serves as President of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics.
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