讲座题目：Meaning (in)formation

讲座召集人:

徐宏颖博士 大连海事大学

Prof. Alin Olteanu 上海外国语大学

讲座简介：

This lecture series explores the relation between meaning and information, in any regard. As the polarization of these two concepts marks the polarization of vitalism and reductivism, respectively, we shall reflect on cross-disciplinary pathways to bridge them.

Information is the term that enabled the digital age, paving the way to engineering machine computation and communication (Shannon, Weaver 1998). While the organic world is characterised by high rates of information exchanges, meaning, mediality and communication here cannot be reduced to quantifiable information. As such, various disciplines that study meaning and communication developed specific concepts of information, to reflect, for example, on language, social, cultural and cognitive processes (e.g., Halliday 1967; Chomsky 2007; Chafe 1987; Prince 1981; Givón 1985; O’Grady 2016; Genosko 2012; Stjernfelt 2014) among other concerns. To diverse ways of conceptualizing information, diverse concepts of genre, register, utterance and proposition correspond. Such concepts epistemologically shape the study of meaning.

Throughout this lecture, we will reflect on overlapping concepts of information and on possible ways of bridging them towards a more encompassing theory, as arguably needful from the prism of the current digital revolution.

特邀发言专家:

1. Prof. Lise Fontaine, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada

2. Prof. Alin Olteanu, Shanghai International Studies University, China

3. Prof. Esther Pascual, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

4. Prof. Jorge Arús Hita, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

5. Prof. Javier Pérez-Guerra, University of Vigo, Spain

6. Prof. Frederik Stjernfelt, Aalborg University, Denmark

7. Prof. Janina Wildfeuer, the University of Groningen, Netherlands

8. Prof. Kobus Marais, University of the Free State, South Africa

9. Prof. Jamin Pelkey, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

10. Prof. Kay O’Halloran, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

讲座形式:

1. 此次系列讲座采取线上+线下结合方式。

2. 讲座形式为每月1-2次。每位专家讲座前一周会于“系统功能语言学”公众号发布讲座题目、摘要、线上参会链接。

3. 线下参会地点：大连海事大学外国语学院（具体地点将于当月特邀专家发言信息一并于公众号推送）。

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