生物符号学的文化意涵:基本命题与学术使命——兼评柯布利著《生物符号学的文化意涵》  

Propositions and Objectives of Cultural Biosemiotics:Reacting to Paul Cobley’s Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics

作　　者：方仪力[1] Fang Yili(the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Sichuan University)

机构地区：[1]四川大学外国语学院

出　　处：《符号与传媒》2025年第1期168-180,共13页Signs & Media

基　　金：成都市哲学社会科学规划一般项目“成都本土小说在英语世界的翻译与传播研究”(2024BS062)前期成果。

摘　　要：生物符号学以“连续论”为理论基石,将文化放置到自然中加以研究,有效地消弭了“两种文化”之间的分裂,抽象的“意义”转化为了真实世界中人类的认知和体验。这不仅为理解“存在”“自我”“理性”等重要概念提供了新的视角和事实材料,更强化了符号学研究的文化意涵,揭示出符号学对文化和文化现象的解释效力。本文基于对柯布利等生物符号学家相关理论的阐释和反思,尝试重返生物符号学的基本命题和学术使命,也即,其一,以“认识”为目的重置意指研究范畴;其二,秉持“连续性”彻底抛弃“自然”与“文化”的二元对立;其三,强化“行动主体性”概念以建构“人类意义共同体”,摆脱人类中心主义,以进一步明确当前符号学在进入到“总体符号学”研究阶段后将生物、认知和伦理不同层面研究融为一体的研究范式,为当下社会科学研究中意义问题的跨学科研究提供了认识论基础。Biosemiotics as an interdisciplinary study contributes to the unification of the divide between scientific culture and humanistic culture by using“continuity”as its theoretical foundation.Situating the studies of culture and cultural phenomena into nature,it successfully addresses the explanatory power of semiotics in meaning construction and thus enhances the cultural implications of Semiotics.This article,based on reflections of how bio-semioticians like Paul Cobley expand the boundaries of cultural research within biosemiotics,revisits the fundamental propositions and research objectives of Biosemiotics,namely,Reframing the scope of semiotic inquiry around“knowing”as its primary goal;Embracing continuity to engage a dialogue between“nature”and“culture”;Redefining the concept of agency to construct a“shared human meaning community”to move beyond anthropocentrism.A comprehensive analysis of the above-mentioned dimensions could be taken as a methodological guidance to clarify how Semiotics in its the current turn of“Global Semiotics”integrates biological,cognitive,and ethical approaches as well.

关 键 词：生物符号学 文化意涵 自然 文化 跨学科研究方法论 

分 类 号：G63[文化科学—教育学]