现场即席话语与多模态研究:意义、理论与方法

现场即席话语出现于人类文字发明以前，存在于鲜活整人的亲历过程中，具有多模态性质，与人类当下认知密切相关。对它的研究应以多模态感官为基点、以人类当下认知为理论框架、以多模态充盈亲历及多模态充盈信息为切入点、以贴真建模为基本思路，尽量贴近人类在现场即席会话中进行多模态互动的充盈亲历过程。在这样的研究思路下，多模态语料库语言学方法成为现场即席话语研究的具体操作手段。多模态现场即席话语语料库带来的研究选题包括:站在普通行为理论高度开展的语言研究、传统语用课题的重新考察、特殊人群的语言研究、濒危语言或方言保护及多模态修辞现象研究等。现场即席话语研究及对应的多模态研究方法，连接着认知科学和人类语言能力发展的理论内涵，拓展了语言研究的视野，具有深刻的理论意义和广阔的应用价值，是未来语言研究的新兴领域之一。 

Situated Discourse and Multimodal Studies: Significance,Theory and Methodology

Real-life situated discourse is the most fundamental form of human interaction and it is constructed in the experiencing process of the Experiencer with the help of human multimodal sensory organs. In this real-life situated discourse, the Experiencer’s Total Saturated Experience and Situated Cognition are closely related. For a more profound understanding on situated discourse, we suggest taking Simulative Modeling and Multimodal Corpus Linguistics as the methodology and Situated Cognition as the theoretical framework, which enables the study to approach the Total Saturated Signification in situated discourse. This paper presents an introduction to multimodal studies on situated discourse, and offers the agenda for future research, including: language and human action, revisit to classic issues in Pragmatics, linguistic phenomena in special groups of people, protection of endangered languages and multimodal rhetoric analysis, etc.. All these issues are believed to be relevant to human cognition and linguistic competence, and thus extend the scope of language study and will grow into a promising research field with good theoretical and applied significance.