在EMI环境下构建有效沟通:跨文化语境下组织元话语的多元化策略  

Building Successful Communication in EMI Contexts:A Multimodal Approach to Organizational Metadiscourse in Intercultural Lectures

作　　者：埃德加·贝尔纳德-梅乔 Edgar BERNAD-MECHÓ(Universitat Jaume I,Spain)

机构地区：[1]海梅一世大学,西班牙

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics》2024年第2期259-280,365,共23页中国应用语言学（英文）

基　　金：encompassed within a research project funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia,Innovación y Universidades,Spain(Ref:PGC2018-094823-B-I00)。

摘　　要：过去十年中,高等教育经历了迅速的国际化进程,许多大学引入了英语作为教学媒介(EMI)。这一新语境为内容讲师带来了新的挑战,因为他们需要适应用英语对跨文化听众进行教学的新方式。本文依据?del(2010)的元话语分类,探索EMI讲座中使用组织元话语以促进成功的交流互动和参与。本文认为所有交流都是多模态的,即意义是通过多种符号资源的组合传达的,因此在超越传统的语言学研究,分析讲座中组织元话语的多模态使用。为进行此分析,本文选取了在西班牙海梅一世大学(Universitat JaumeⅠ)授课的三段90分钟的视频录制的EMI讲座,进行了转录和手动检查,以记录所有组织元话语的实例。接下来,选择了六个结构段落,即讲座中正在组织内容的部分。使用Multimodal Analysis—Video软件,检查了语言(组织元话语)与副语言、手势、凝视、近体语言、头部移动和面部表情之间的互动。最后,将研究结果呈现给录音中的讲师,以获得其自省视角。结果显示了与组织元话语同时发生的复杂多模态集合的积极利用。这些集合揭示了一个潜在目标,即通过适应非母语跨文化听众的语言并吸引听众,以实现成功的交流。最后,对这些结果进行了解释,并提出了针对教师培训的教学意义。Higher education(HE)has experienced a swift internationalization process in the last decade,introducing English as a Medium of Instruction(EMI)in many universities.This new reality brings about novel challenges for content lecturers as they adapt to a new way of teaching in English for intercultural audiences.FollowingÄdel’s(2010)taxonomy of metadiscourse,this paper aims to explore the use of organizational metadiscourse in EMI lectures to foster successful communicative interaction and engagement.Assuming that all communication is multimodal,i.e.,meaning is conveyed through the combination of several semiotic resources,this paper sets out to go beyond traditional linguistic studies in order to examine the multimodal use of organizational metadiscourse in lectures.To carry out this analysis,three 90-minute-long videorecorded EMI lectures taught at Universitat Jaume I(Spain)were selected,transcribed and manually inspected to account for all instances of organizational metadiscourse.Next,six structuring segments were chosen,i.e.sections within the lectures in which the contents are being organized.Using the software Multimodal Analysis Video,interactions between speech(organizational metadiscourse)and paralanguage,gestures,gaze,proxemics,head movement and facial expression were examined.Finally,the findings were presented to the lecturers in the recordings to obtain an insight perspective.Results show the active utilization of complex multimodal ensembles co-occurring with organizational metadiscourse.These ensembles reveal an underlying aim of achieving successful communication,by accommodating language to a non-native intercultural audience,and engaging the audience.Lastly,these results are interpreted and pedagogical implications for teacher training are put forward.

关 键 词：组织元话语 多模态性 讲座 英语授课 跨文化交流 

分 类 号：H319.3[语言文字—英语]