当代中国话语的中国理论

Exploring a Chinese Theory of Contemporary Chinese Discourses

与中国传统的语言、文学、传播理论相比,西方的话语理论具有关注语用形式、权势斗争的优点。但是,作为一种强势的国际学术话语,它本身又带有文化偏见和霸权,并不能确切、充分地反映像中国这样的发展中社会的现实与需要,更不利于国际话语研究的创新发展。本文运用跨历史、跨文化的原则方法,提出一套既具中国立场、又有全球胸怀的当代中国话语理论框架。它突出展现当代中国话语在国际话语体系中的劣势地位及其生成和理解的文化规律、原则和策略(如"言不尽意"、"平衡和谐"、"辨证思维"、"面子呵护"、"崇尚爱国")。文章还讨论应该选取的理论发展方向以及具体路径。

The current international arena of discoursestudies is dominated by West-centric scholarship; this is not only unproductive to the Third/Fourth World development, but also detrimental to human knowl- edge innovation. The present paper outlines a first cultural, Chinese, theoretical framework of contemporary Chinese discourses from a historical and intercultural perspective. It is composed of ten propositions based on qualitative as well as empirical arguments. In conclusion, questions of how the ten propositions are related to one another and how the theoretical system may be further developed are discussed.