进化视角介入语用研究的困境阐释

A Clarification of the Difficultieson Pragmatics Research from an Evolutionary Perspective

虽然进化性视角在其他学科研究中得到了前所未有的重视,但在介入到语用研究中时却遇到了诸多困境。当使用具有进化论基础的研究范式解释语言事实时,往往面临着严峻的本体论、认识论和方法论的三层挑战。基于语用研究中的进化性渊源,可以发现:语用研究中进化视角介入所遭遇的误解主要表现为决定论、还原论及盲目乐观论。这些误解的澄清需要语用学界关注进化论的科普教育及语用研究的社会维度,从而实现语用学真正意义上的解放。

Evolutionary perspective finds it hard to integrate itself into pragmatics in the form of conundrums though it has been greatly valued in many other disciplinary studies. When an evolutionary paradigm is deployed to explain linguistic facts, it is often confronted with challenges from ontology, epistemology and methodology. Based on the evolutionary veins of pragmatics, it is found that the major misunderstandings of evolutionary perspective on pragmatics are manifested in determinism, reductionism and Panglossianism, the clarification of which requires the academia to focus more on the theories of evolution and the social dimensions of pragmatics so as to emancipate pragmatics in a real sense.