外国语学院语言沙龙系列专题讲座之六

外国语学院语言沙龙成立于2010年4月，现挂靠于外国语学院的语言文化研究所。在学院的大力支持下，沙龙已经在上学期成功地组织了五次专题讲座，本周五下午将举行系列专题讲座之六，具体讲座信息如下：

题目：Digitality, Granularity and Ineffability
时间：9月17日（星期五）下午3:00-5:00
地点：第二文科楼100室
讲座人：梁瑞清 博士
主持人：廖开洪 博士

讲座人简介：梁瑞清，男，博士，副教授，研究方向为语言哲学、语用学，2007年毕业于广东外语外贸大学，获文学博士学位，2009年2月至2010年2月获得国家留学基金委的资助，在斯坦福大学语言与信息研究中心（CSLI）从事为期一年的访学/博士后研究，回国后与李海辉博士和廖开洪博士共同发起成立外国语学院语言学术沙龙。现为中西语言哲学研究会理事，任教于暨南大学外国语学院大学英语部。本次讲座题目是他最近写就的一篇论文，已被Language Sciences（SSCI、A&HCI）录用。

内容简介：
        Digitality and granularity are two distinctive features of human language and both of them, as argued in this paper, contribute to ineffability, and the ineffability problem, not surprisingly, constitutes a serious challenge to what Harris [Harris, R. (ed.), 2002. The Language Myth in Western Culture. Curzon, Richmond] has called “the communication myth” in the Western culture. Based on a conceptual analysis of the notion of ineffability, the present paper argues that there is indeed a descriptive gap between language and experience, but sensory experience is only phenomenally ineffable in an attenuated sense, namely that the phenomenal content of sensory experience (e.g. the aroma of coffee), largely effable, cannot be conveyed in words only in an exhaustive sense. Furthermore, the strength of phenomenal ineffability is in direct proportion to that of dynamic phenomenal effect sensory experience exerts on the experiencing subject. This weak thesis of phenomenal ineffability is ultimately motivated by the map theory of language, which provides a unified explanation for what is said, what is unsaid, and what cannot be (exhaustively) said. Phenomenal ineffability is not something that should be avoided; instead, it helps to save us from a language that is too cumbersome for acquisition and communication.

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                                           外国语学院语言学术沙龙
                                                      2010.9.14  
作者：赵珣