从图形—背景论诠释非言语行为的认知功能

Analyses on Cognitive Functions of Non-verbal Behavior from the Perspective of Figure-ground Theory

话语交际者往往依赖非言语行为来推理判断对方的真实意图,体会不可言传的交际信息,而这种推理判断的信息处理过程本身就是一种认知过程。非言语行为具有突显话语信息、使某些蕴涵的语用信息图形化的认知功能。因此本文试从图形—背景理论对话语交际中的非言语行为进行认知剖析,意在突破跨文化交际理论框架的局限,把非言语行为的理论研究延伸到认知语言学领域。

Participants in a discourse tend to infer and judge the real intention of the other party in the light of their non-verbal behaviors so as to access the inexplicable discourse message. The message disposal process of inference and judgment itself, however, is exactly a kind of cognitive process. Non-verbal behaviors are able to bring the discourse message into prominence and form the implied pragmatic message into a figure. Here non-verbal behaviors will be analyzed from the perspective of Figure-Ground Theory. This paper attempts to break through the frame of cross-cultural communication by extending the research of non-verbal behaviors into the domain of cognitive linguistics.