元话语在数字化学科研究交流中的再语境化作用:以心理学文摘为例

Digesting Psychology:Metadiscourse as a Recontextualising Tool in the Digital Communication of Disciplinary Research

元话语(metadiscourse)最初被视作探究学术性、单一书面文本的专属工具。但随着数字话语研究的深入,元话语似乎演变为一个颇具挑战性的探索框架。首先,网络环境下的作者与读者互动变得隐晦难辨,这为元话语的研究带来了一定的困扰;其次,数字文本的多模态特性进一步增加了元话语研究的复杂性。本研究旨在深入剖析交互式元语言资源在在线交流环境中所扮演的关键角色。因此,该研究聚焦于英国心理学会官方网站上发布的数字研究文摘语料库,该网站是英国心理学界最具权威性和代表性的机构之一。本研究专注于互动元话语的功能性探讨,视其为一种重构语境的重要工具,以助力非专业读者更好地理解复杂学科知识。经过深入研究,该研究确定了几类关键的互动资源,包括代码词汇、证据、过渡标记以及框架标记。这些资源通过战略性的运用,有效地促进了专业信息的传递和中介作用,同时充分利用了数字平台所赋予的各项能力。

Metadiscourse was initially conceived as a tool to explore mainly academic,monologic,written texts.When applied to the study of digital discourse,metadiscourse may reveal itself as a rather frustrating exploratory framework,firstly because of the problematised interaction between writer and reader in an online context where audiences are not easily identifiable and,secondly,because of the multimodal character of digital texts.In the present study,the role played by interactive metadiscoursal resources in online communication has been explored.For such purposes,the focus has been placed on a corpus of digital research digests published on the website of the British Psychological Society,the most important representative body of the profession in the United Kingdom.The study revolves around the function of interactive metadiscourse as a recontextualising tool to facilitate the understanding of complex disciplinary knowledge for potentially less expert readers.Several interactive resources(code glosses,evidentials,transition markers,and frame markers)are identified,which strategically contribute to the mediation of specialised information and which also take advantage of the affordances offered by digital platforms.