1. 讲座时间：2019年12月4日下午14:15-16:00
12月5日下午14:15-16:00
2.讲座主题：生态语言学视角下的语言、生态与文明的研究
3. 主讲人：Sune Vork Steffensen教授（南丹麦大学）、Stephen Cowley教授（南丹麦大学）
4. 讲座地点：中山大学新华学院东莞校区（具体地点待定）
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l 12月4日讲座 Sune Vork Steffensen教授（南丹麦大学）
【讲座摘要】
Ecolinguistics: a critical introduction
This lecture introduces contemporary ecolinguistics.After a general overview of the field and the various strands within it(Steffensen & Fill, 2014), it critically discusses some of the theoretical assumptions in ecolinguistics. Arguing that these assumptions are not sufficiently grounded(Steffensen, 2017), I turn to a Distributed Language perspective (Cowley, 2011; Steffensen, 2015).
I argue that such a perspective allows for a transformation of ecolinguistics by grounding it in ecological naturalism. The two basic tenets of this transformation are:(1) grounding ecolinguistics in the study of bio-ecologies(Cowley, 2014), and (2) adopting the Extended Ecology Hypothesis(Steffensen, 2011). Drawing on joint work with Stephen Cowley (Steffensen & Cowley, in press), the proposal is that these tenets give rise to a radical ecolinguistics.
Radical ecolinguistics aspires to ground the study of language and linguistic interaction in a much wider understanding human cognition and human behaviour as ecologically embedded.
l 12月5日讲座Stephen Cowley教授（南丹麦大学）
【讲座摘要】
Eco-civilisations: putting our voices to epistemic work
The concept of eco-civilisations invites us to create a newecolinguistic story that can change our futures. I stress that, as part of bio-ecology, humans are living beings who not only speak and act but that, as a result, we – and we alone – can think of behalf of the world. With Rappaport (1999), I see this as our responsibility. By raising bio-ecological awareness, we can help challenge technoscientific hegemony by adding ecolinguistic voices to the many who aim to create eco-civilisations.
Ecolinguisticsused analysis of linguistic pattern to establish a socially diverse, global community that works on communication, language-systems and their use. Since the 1970s, analysis has revealed hidden ideology, tracked negative consequences of language loss, promoted harmonious discourse, contributed to language policies and addressed educational needs. Indeed, it leads to dissemination of stories that we live by (Stibbe, 2015). However, the scope of the field is limited by its reliance on linguistics and sociolinguistics. If our aim is that of promoting eco-civilisationsmore is needed. To change how communities conceive of living well, we need to prepare new ecolinguistic terrain. By raising bio-ecological awareness, we can both change attitudes around to currently dominant ‘imperial ways of living’ (Brand and Wissen, 2018) and use the consequences to in striving to redirect work in thelife sciences andtechnology. Twenty-first century work needs a new unity: as Steffensen and Fill (2014) suggest, ecolinguistics needs to admit the cultural-historical and the cognitive. Rather than invoke ‘mental’ workings or the ‘realization’ of lexicogrammar, we can build human understanding by linking activity to historically located experience. We can pursue how the past resonates with linguistic embodiment. On such a view, community-based attitudes can use discursive knowledge to shape bio-ecological awareness. Positive action can build on a commitment to social diversity. The mission plays to our strenghts. Ecolinguistic voices and ways of knowing offer much to all those who are striving to ensure that eco-civilisationsare possible.
【主讲教师简介】
1. Sune Vork Steffensen
Sune Vork Steffensen is Professor of Interpersonal Communication and Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark. Having written a PhD in linguistics at University of Aarhus, he took up his current position at the University of Southern Denmark in 2008. In 2012 he became the founding director of the Centre for Human Interactivity, which investigates how language, social organization, and cognition intersect in complex social and dialogical systems. His research interests include: interaction and interactivity; ecological, dialogical and distributed approaches to language and interaction; the functioning of cognitive ecosystems. He has pioneered the Cognitive Event Analysis, a qualitative method for studying distributed cognitive processes in cognitive systems consisting of individuals, dyads or teams, working in complex social and material environments. In recent years, he has co-edited volumes on dialectical linguistics (Continuum, 2007), biosemiotics and health interaction (Braga University Press, 2010), the distributed dynamics of language (Language Sciences, 2012), and ecolinguistics (Language Sciences, 2014). Since July 2015 he has been acting as Editor in Chief of the journal Language Sciences.
2. Stephen Cowley
Stephen Cowley is Professor of Organisational Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark. Having completed a Cambridge PhD entitled “The Place of Prosody in Conversations”, he moved to South Africa. There his academic focus gradually shifted from Linguistics to Cognitive Science and the implications of the ecological crisis. He has held positions in Linguistics (Durban), Psychology (Durban, Bradford and Hertfordshire) and Language & Communication (Slagelse, Denmark). His empirical work examines prosodic, kinesic and verbal interactions within families, between mothers and infants, with robots, in medical simulations and in peer-review. In tracing intelligent activity to agent-environment interactions, he has expertise in problem finding, decision making and how people and organisations range in time by bringing the past to current and future concerns.
Together with Nigel Love, he founded the Distributed Language Group in 2004. The DLG community aims to transform the language sciences by tracing what is human to the directed, dialogical activity that shapes the collective dimension of language. In 2012, he co-founded the International Society for the study of Interactivity, Language and Cognition, an international community that holds biennial conferences. His papers span topics such as prosody, developmental psychology, social robotics and pursue foundational work on how the bio-ecology shapes language and cognition. Papers include: (a) Linguistic embodiment and verbal constraints (Frontiers in Psychology,2015); (b) Bio-ecology and language: a necessary unity (Language Sciences, 2014); (c) Taking a language stance (Ecological Psychology, 2011); and (d) Grounding signs of culture (Mind, Culture and Activity, 2004). He is on the Editorial Board of 6 journals (including ones from Russia and China) and has edited/co-edited 12 Special Issues as well as the volumes: Distributed Language (2001, Benjamins), Cognition Beyond the Brain: Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice (2013, Springer; 2nd Edition, 2017) and Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics (2015, Springer).
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