知识的交汇与融合——批评话语分析、社会符号学以及新修辞学发展轨迹引发的思考

Convergence of Knowledge: Reflections on the Development of Critical Discourse Analyses,Social Semiotics and New Rhetoric

考察批评话语分析、社会符号学以及新修辞学关于话语、符号、修辞的认识,分析这些认识发展变化的特征及其在后现代主义语言观上形成的交汇,本文认为这种"交汇"还可以进一步发展,形成跨学科的"融合",并体现一定的学术创新。基于此,本文对知识交汇与融合的问题进行话语层面的思考,认为批评话语分析、社会符号学以及新修辞学形成知识交汇与融合的前提是其对新的社会历史问题主动作出回应,而其实现融合的方式则可以是各自术语、方法和理论的相互"再情景化"。如此这般的思考和分析,可以为不同传统的学术话语的交融提供借鉴,为学术话语实践创新提供参考。

This article discusses the conceptualization of discourse,semiosis and rhetoric in the fields of critical discourse analysis,social semiotics and new rhetoric. The discussion is based on the author’s research in the relevant fields and focuses on the conceptual development towards the convergence of knowledge on the ground of post-modernist view of language. It argues that the convergence appearing as the three research traditions makes necessary responses to the new historical situation in the mid 20 th century,and this convergence can still lead to innovative thoughts through recontextualization of terms,methods and theories within each field. It is hoped that the reflections can provide insight for academic discourse practice in a way in which discourses of different tradition will interdisciplinarily benefit from and converge with each other.