语境理论的新发展:社会认知途径——van Dijk的两部语境新著述评

The Latest Development of Context Theory:The Socio-cognitive Approach

语境研究过去主要遵循形式结构的研究范式,没有纳入认知、心理和社会的维度,van Dijk在语境理论方面的跨学科新探索改变了这一研究现状。首先揭示出目前语境研究存在的本质性问题,然后在此基础上,对van Dijk的社会认知模式的主要观点加以简要述评。van Dijk的两部语境新著,不仅完善了其话语分析的理论模式,同时也将进一步促成批评认知语言学这一分支学科的产生。

Earlier studies of context usually followed the research paradigm of formal structuralism, without integrating into it the cognitive, psychological and social dimensions. This is, however, totally changed by van Dijk ’s exploration into an integrated, multidisciplinary theory of context. Based on the major problem posed by current context research,this paper intends to give a brief review of van Dijk’s main claims about the socio-cognitive approach to context.The new contribution not only further refines his theoretical model of discourse analysis,but also facilitates the emergence of Critical Cognitive Linguistics.