Terry Royce博士谈经济话语的多模态研究
2017年12月14号下午，悉尼科技大学Terry Royce博士在9教306举办了题为Economics and The Economist Magazine: A functional linguistic view of page-based multimodality的精彩讲座。中山大学博士生导师Wendy Bowcher教授，我院云山学者何安平教授、法律语言学博士生导师袁传有教授、英语文学博士生导师戴桂玉教授、商务英语研究硕士生导师刘平教授、英文学院何清顺博士等10余位教师出席，70余名博硕研究生参加。讲座由副院长胡春雨教授主持。
讲座现场气氛热烈
Terry Royce博士首先介绍了系统功能语言学的基本观点。在系统功能语言学看来，语言是用来做事的，因而是功能的；语言是用来表义的，因而是语义的；语言所建构的意义是在特定的情景、文化语境中激活的，因而是语境的；语言意义的选择来自所具有的意义系统，因而是符号的。词语的选择取决于情景语境三变量：语场、语旨、语式；语场变量激活概念元功能，语旨变量激活人际元功能，语式变量激活语篇元功能。语境三变量决定了经济学话语在遣词造句上具有自己独到的语域特色。
在阐发了经济学话语研究的系统功能语言学理论背景后，Royce开始探讨经济学话语的修辞功能，主要涉及以下几个方面：界定术语、表达因果、提供例证、对比观点、概括观点等。Royce接着介绍了如何把系统功能语言学的社会符号学观移植到多模态话语研究，并以《经济学人》财经栏目中的多模态语篇为研究对象，展示如何开展多模态话语分析，并总结出文字与图像多模态分析的三个关键步骤：对图像的可视化分析、对文本自身的分析、两者间的符际互补。另外，他认为这种分析框架还可运用到包括法律语篇在内的其它类型的语篇中，同时呼吁大家关注经济话语的功能用途与符际互补性。
Terry Royce博士同与会教师合影留念
Royce博士渊博的学识、幽默的谈吐、丰富的肢体语言，不但引起台下阵阵笑声，也激发了在座师生积极参与的热情。在回答如何在商务英语教学中更好地将语言知识与商科知识融合起来的问题，他指出这涉及到课程安排的内容，并举了自己所任教大学的例子，给出了独特又不失卓见的回答。而对于如何提升经济话语中的修辞能力，他风趣地给出“read, read and read”三字经。
附：Terry Royce博士简介
Dr. Terry Royce teaches in the Graduate Research School (GRS) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and coordinates the Research Literacies Program for PhD students. He runs sessions for Early Career Researchers (ECRs), and PhD supervisors across all faculties. Prior to joining UTS, he was Associate Professor and Program Director for Teachers College, Columbia University Graduate Program (Tokyo). At UTS he supervises PhD students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in applied linguistics (forensic linguistics) and language education (TESOL).
His research interests focus on forensic linguistics, multimodal text analysis, discourse and cohesion analysis across disciplines, and TESOL. His external teaching, consultancy, and research work is in forensic discourse analysis and forensic stylistics, where he has carried out questioned authorship analyses and forensic stylistic analyses for various private and governmental organizations as part of his consultancy at www.forlingua.com. He conducts professional development workshops for the Counter Terrorism and Special Tactics (CT&ST) Command in the NSW Police Service, focussing on research skills for the CT Strategy Unit, spoken communication in critical incident policing for the Negotiators Unit (State Protection Group), and written communication skills for the Security Management Unit (SMU). He is also an adjunct PhD supervisor for the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism (PICT) at Macquarie University. His research in forensic linguistics has been published in such journals as Harvard University Law School’s Negotiation Journal, the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (JPICT), the International Journal of Law, Language and Discourse (IJLLD), and the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.
