题 目：语篇分析中的新趋势和新视角

主讲人：Barbara Johnstone（美国卡内基梅隆大学）

时 间：2009年5月20日(周三)15:40

地 点：北校区第六教学楼A209

主办单位：人事处

承办单位：英文学院

演讲人简介：

Barbara Johnston是美国卡内基梅隆大学修辞学与语言学教授，著名学术刊物《社会语言》（Language in Society）主编，在相关研究领域取得了丰硕研究成果。

详细情况如下：

Barbara Johnstone is a professor of rhetoric and linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric and language study. Major research interests: discourse structure and function; Forms and functions of narrative; womens and mens narrative; functions of repetition in discourse and their implications for linguistic theory; cross-cultural study of rhetorical discourse; discourse style in the southern US; the individual in linguistic theory; social and individual resources for style in Texas womens public discourse; sociolinguistics; regional/social variation in discourse structure and strategy; interactional sociolinguistics; ethnography of communication; gender and regional variation in discourse style, etc. Barbara Johnstone has written numerous articles and books in the above areas.

演讲内容简介：

I begin this lecture with an overview of what I call a heuristic approach to discourse analysis (Johnstone, 2008). A heuristic is a set of exploratory questions that can be asked of a text or an interaction in order to find as many reasons as possible for why the text or interaction takes the shape it does. The heuristic approach is an alternative to approaches that start with pre-conceived theories and look for evidence that the theories are correct. To illustrate the heuristic approach, I discuss recent work in discourse studies and sociolinguistics that exemplifies each element of the heuristic. The lecture will thus touch on recent work about discourse and politics, discourse structure, social identities and participation roles, genre andentextualization, discourse and new media, and micro-rhetoric.

演讲语言：英语