语言、教育与文化耦合:布鲁纳语言建构观的本质内涵及启示

The Coupling of Language,Education and Culture:The Essential Con notation and Enlightenment of Bruner's Concept of Language Construction

布鲁纳从意义建构的方式、意义建构的体验互动性和意义建构中语言的符号性作用三个方面论述了语言对社会现实的建构;从意义生成的准备、意义生成的工具及意义生成的实现三个方面说明了语言对自我的建构。语言对社会及自我的建构离不开文化,语言与文化是相互交融的关系,而教育问题又与社会现实建构紧密相关,教育是使文化心理学中的观念得以淬炼转生的“试金石”。布鲁纳语言建构观的本质在于文化、教育与语言三者之间的相互包含及耦合关系。重新审视布鲁纳的语言建构观对当前外语教育发展有着极其重要的现实意义:语言作为学校教育的重要“抓手”,不能唯其“工具论”;学校教育作为教育的主要“阵营”,不能唯其“知识论”;文化作为教育和语言的根植“土壤”,不能唯其“狭隘论”。

Bruner discusses the construction of language on social reality from three aspects:the way,the experience interaction and the symbolic function of meaning construction.It explains the self-construction of language from the preparation,the tool and the realization of meaning generation.The construction of language to society and self is inseparable from culture which is intertwined with language.The problem of education is closely related to the construction of social reality and education is the"touchstone"that reincarnates the concepts in cultural psychology.The essence of Bruner's view of language construction lies in the mutual inclusion and coupling among culture,education and language.Re-examining Bruner's view of language construction is of great practical significance to the development of foreign language education:language,as an important"grasp"of school education,should not be confined to its"tool theory";schools,as the main"camp"of education,should not be confined to its"theory of knowledge";culture,as the"soil"of education and language,should not be confined to its"parochialism".