新媒体的社会语言学研究:回顾与展望  

Sociolinguistic Studies of New Media:Review and Prospect

作　　者：吴东英[1] 李朝渊[1] 冯捷蕴[2] 

机构地区：[1]香港理工大学中文及双语学系 [2]对外经济贸易大学英语学院

出　　处：《当代语言学》2016年第4期514-531,共18页Contemporary Linguistics

基　　金：香港理工大学研究基金#4-ZZFB;北京市哲学社会科学规划项目13JGB051;2014年度国家社科基金重大项目#14ZDB158的支持

摘　　要：本文以变异社会语言学和互动社会语言学两种范式为主线,对近十余年国内外主要的新媒体社会语言学研究进行梳理和述评,以深化对新媒体环境下的语言变异、言语行为、面子与礼貌、身份建构等重要议题的理解,并在此基础上指出今后研究的方向。笔者认为,新媒体的社会语言学研究需要更多地与其他学科展开更深层次的合作,以更好地描述、解释和预测数字时代的言语互动、交际模式与行为的发展。The paper attempts to review and critique a large number of linguistic studies on new media during the recent decades and to propose further directions for future researches in this area of inquiry. Two paradigms in sociolinguistics, variationist sociolinguistics and interactional sociolinguistics, have been utilized to categorize and characterize the studies. Pioneered by William Labov （ 1966, 1972）, variationist sociolinguistics is a line of sociolinguistic research that focuses on analyzing phonetic, lexical, and syntactical variations across different speech communities. Rooted in essentialism, variationist sociohnguistics views language as heterogeneous but ordered or structured, maintaining that the correlations between linguistic forms and language user factors are objective. Such line of research is characterized by using large-scale quantitative analysis, exploring the correlations between linguistic forms and language user variables such as gender, age, social class, profession, etc. Different from variationist sociolinguistics, interactional sociohnguistics, represented by John Gumperz （ 1982）, extends their units of analysis to the larger context of language use and to larger stretches of language use such as conversations and texts. With further development of interactive functions of social media in the recent years, increasing research in interactional sociolinguistics has taken place which integrates different theories and methods to address communication and interaction issues in the context of new media. A major part of the paper is thus devoted to presenting a few key notions and research methods of this approach that have been utilized to study human interaction on social media. One notion that has been frequently applied to examine social media discourse is the notion of speech act, first proposed by Austin （1962） and later further elaborated by Searle （1975）. Carr, et al. （2012） apply the taxonomy by Searle （1975） to examine the use of speech acts on Facebook statu

关 键 词：新媒体 变异社会语言学 互动社会语言学 

分 类 号：H0-05[语言文字—语言学]