第二次启蒙视域下的有机语言学与体认语言学

Organic Linguistics and Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics from the Perspective of the Second Enlightenment

基于第二次启蒙的相关思想,本文提出了有机语言学的新构想。有机语言学依托有机世界观,主张用动态的、有机整体的视角看语言,将语言视为关系性的存在、生成性的存在。从这个意义上讲,有机语言学也是一种生态语言学,具有极其重要的生态维度,是一种为生态文明服务的语言学,是克服人类中心主义的有效武器。中国学者王寅提出的“体认语言学”可以看作有机语言学在中国的发展形态。“体认语言学”的理论创新不仅体现为对体验的强调和对语言重要性的强调,而且体现为对有机整合思维的强调。对于克服汉语界与外语界“不相往来的尴尬局面”和发展一种既整合中西语言优势又具有中国特色的生态文明语言学,有机语言学和体认语言学可以做出独特的贡献。

This paper proposes a new concept of organic linguistics from the perspective of the Second Enlightenment. Based on an organic world view, organic linguistics stresses that language should be understood as a dynamic and organic whole. Organic linguistics views language as a relational being. In this sense, organic linguistics can also be regarded as an ecological linguistics. Moreover, the ecological implications of language can play role in overcoming anthropocentrism and serving ecological civilization. This paper goes on to argue that the embodied-cognitive linguistics proposed by Chinese Professor Yin Wang is not only a new development in linguistics, but also a form of organic linguistics. The theoretical innovation of embodied-cognitive linguistics reflects not only an emphasis on the relationship between experience and language, but also an emphasis an organic holistic thinking. This kind of organic linguistics can make a special contribution to the fields of Chinese language theory and foreign language theory in China by overcoming the current(and embarrassing) isolation between these two fields, thereby developing a theory of linguistics with Chinese characteristics for ecological civilization that integrates the strengths of both Chinese and Western language theory.