Experiencing language
Experiencing language
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体验语言
DOI：
10.1177/1463499612454088
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Elinor Ochs
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作者：
Elinor Ochs
本文认为，心理文化人类学家在研究语言与经验的关系时，倾向于关注语言的符号属性。这种关注导致了对语言捕捉公共文化意义的庆祝，但它也产生了对语言的贬低，认为语言是武断的，控制和远离一个人的“真实”思想和感受。一种半现代主义、半柏拉图主义的先验情绪挥之不去，认为语言与世界的鸿沟正在不可挽回地扩大。这篇文章认为语言的不完整性值得进一步考虑。语言在符号层面上的不足部分被语言的额外索引能力所弥补，也就是说，将语境相关意义的领域带入意识，包括定位的自我。这篇文章提出了一种现象学的语言观点，在这种观点中，语言的普通行为，即话语，本身就是体验世界的模式。从这个角度来看，在人类学学术概念中，近经验和远经验之间的区别忽略了一个基本点，即语言一旦开始运动，和经验是联系在一起的。
This essay argues that psycho-cultural anthropologists addressing the relation of language to experience tend to focus on the symbolic property of language. This focus has led to a celebration of words as capturing public cultural meanings, but it has also generated disparagement of language as arbitrary, controlling and remote from a person’s ‘authentic’ thoughts and feelings. A part-modernist, part-Platonic transcendental sentiment lingers that the language-world divide is irretrievably expansive. This essay suggests that the incompleteness of language begs further consideration. Language’s inadequacy on the symbolic level is partly compensated by the additional capacity of language to be indexical, i.e. to bring into consciousness a realm of contextually relevant meanings, including the situated self. The essay promotes a phenomenological view of language in which ordinary enactments of language, i.e. utterances, are themselves modes of experiencing the world. In this perspective, the distinction between experience-near and experience-distant as conceptualized in anthropological scholarship misses the fundamental point that language, once in motion, and experience are conjoined.
从早期代词到专有名词：9/11、格特鲁德·斯坦因和东德民族志的理论片段
影响因子：
0.7
作者：
Carrithers M
通讯作者：
Carrithers M