时间：2017.5.12（周五）14:00-16:00
地点：东五-201
主题：
Dialogue � the fountain of discourse:Paradoxes in the Zhuangzi and what they tell us
In this talk, I will look at two paradoxes,the fishnet and the rabbit snare story, and the brief dialogue between Zhuangzi and Huizi (Hui Shi) about the happiness of fish. I will do this from the perspective of discourse analysis. Discourse consists of arbitrary signs. They mean what people have (more or less) agreed that they mean. They do not refer to things, relationships or processes taking place in the ‘real’ world, the world that exists outside of discourse. Instead they refer to the world we construct by talking about it. For the Daoist Zhuangzi, too, language is not a (true) representation of heaven and earth (天 [tian] 地 [di]), the natural, social and spiritual world (the dao). For him (but not for Confucius), the meaning of a word is not fixed by its reference tothings of the ‘real’ world.The Daodejing suggests we should give up language altogether, because what we say is never the dao, the’real’ world. My understanding of the Zhuangzi is, on the other hand, that this text insists that if we want the world confronting us to have a meaning, we have to talk about it, to share and exchange our ideas about it.
主讲人简介：Prof. Teubert是伯明翰学派代表人物之一。长期从事德语和英语语言研究，先后受聘于德国和英国的多所大学以及欧盟的语言教学和研究机构，现为英国伯明翰大学终身荣誉教授。是SSCI刊物International Journal of Corpus Linguistics的创刊人，是Studies in Corpus Linguistics，[Journal of] Languages in Contrast，[Journal of] Language and Dialogue等多本杂志的编委。
外国语言学及应用语言学研究所
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