布迪厄符号权力理论评介

An Analytical Introduction to Pierre Boudieu's Symbolic Power

人类对于语言(符号)与权力的关系已做过长期深入的思考。因为,蕴含于语言符号之中的权力问题,已构成当下诸多与语言有关的学科(比如翻译研究、社会语言学以及文化社会学)的重要研究内容之一。在诸多研究者中,福柯、布迪厄显然是研究语言与权力之间关系的代表性人物。约翰.汤姆森主持编译的《语言与符号权力》又无疑体现了布迪厄关于语言与符号权力的主要观点。在该文集中,布迪厄不仅深入地探讨了符号权力这个概念,而且深刻地分析了语言作为政治实践在建构、维持权力以及灌输知识与信仰方面的运行轨迹。

Many scholars have reflected upon the relationship between language and power, which has so far attracted increasing attention in such disciplines as translation studies, sociolinguistics, social and cultural studies, and among the representatives are Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. In Language and Symbolic Power, edited by John B. Thompson and translated into English by Gino Raymond and Matthew Adamson, Bourdieu not only deeply explored the symbolic power, but also profoundly analyzed the operation of language as political practice in the process of constructing and maintaining authority, inculcating knowledge and belief.