语言转向中的话语意义及其权力

Discourse Meaning and Its Power in the Linguistic Turn

受后现代社会的发展和自然科学进步的影响,语言概念的传统界定在语言转向过程中被解构,代之以话语与思想同步形成为特征的新概念阐释。弗斯、韩礼德、乔姆斯基和索绪尔等语言学家从不同侧面为语言的这一转向做出了重要贡献。由于话语权力与人的社会存在具有必然联系,因而人的社会存在就决定了人们在特定语境下选择适当的话语来表达自己的思想和理解别人的话语。在全球化语境下,话语权力研究渗透到各个领域内,成为不同学科研究的共同热点话题。

Influenced by the development of post-modern society and the achievement of sciences, the traditional concept of language has been deeonstrncted in the linguistic turn and replaced by the new interpretation of the concept that discourse and thought are formed at the same time. Firth, Halliday, Chomsky, Saussure and many other linguists have made their contribu- tions to the linguistic turn in different aspects. Discourse is closely related to social existence so that human social existence decides that proper words should he chosen to express their own ideas and well understand others＇ utterance. In the environ- ment of globalization, the study of discourse power has now been expanded into different disciplines, being considered to be one of the focuses of their studies.