主    题：   Motivation in Language

主 讲 人：   Prof. / Dr. Klaus-Uwe Panther（国际认知语言学会主席 ）

主 持 人：   荣榕博士

时    间：   10月14日（周一）下午3:00-5:00

地    点：   外国语学院502室

讲座摘要：

    The aim of this talk is to make a case for motivation as an explanatory concept in linguistic theorizing. Motivation is often discarded by formalist linguists as an unscientific concept. Indeed, explanations in terms of motivation are not nomological-deductive, but despite this “deficiency”, I argue that in the human sciences, in particular linguistics, the notion of motivation is indispensable. Following and elaborating a concept of motivation proposed by Radden & Panther (2004), Panther & Radden (2011), and Panther (2013), data are presented that are arguably best accounted for on the basis of motivational factors. In this respect, my presentation accords with what Langacker (2008: 14) says about the ubiquity of motivation in language: “Cognitive and functional linguists find that virtually everything in language is motivated [...] (even if very little is strictly predictable)”.

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