4月20日上午，外国语学院在乐育楼C104举行建院十五周年院庆学术讲座，邀请汕头大学李杰教授主讲，题目为从语言个体发生的角度提高语言学习者的隐喻能力。 李杰教授强调，隐喻的掌握在语言表达能力和交际能力中十分关键，而个体语言学习者学会隐喻表达和隐喻理解的能力可以看成是语言能力发展的标志。他认为，语言的个体发生涉及个体的语言发展情况，反映出从简单到复杂，从具体到抽象、从直白式到隐喻式的语言发展规律。因此，通过语言个体发生的研究，得到一些语言教学、特别是外语教学的启示非常重要。讲座最后，李杰教授还设立问答环节，在网络用语、语言的演变、语言的规划等多方面，与现场师生进行了探讨与交流。
4月20日下午，外国语学院在乐育楼C106举行学术讲座，邀请深圳大学刘毅教授讲座，题目为：论一带一路国际话语体系的构建。刘毅教授从功能语言学角度出发，提出了话语分析的五个维度，即隐喻意义、概括意义、级差意义、话外意义和不话意义。刘教授通过中国对外话语发展的三个阶段，对“一带一路”的五个维度进行了详细分析，他指出，一带一路话语体系，是一种出击外向型体系，以世界语境为核心，表达了中国进入世界的积极态度，以一种国际认可的话语模式与西方争取发展中国家。
外国语学院历来重视提高学生的学术修养，培养学生的学术研究意识。此次通过十五周年院庆的契机，邀请国内外知名教授来我院开展讲座，对于创造良好的学术氛围具有重要积极意义。
Academic Lectures for the 15th Anniversary of the Foundation of School of Foreign Languages
Translated by Qin Yitong
On the morning of April 20th, academic lectures were held by School of Foreign Languages (SFL) in Room C103 of Leyu Building as a celebration of the 15th anniversary of its foundation. Professor Li Jie, from Shantou University, was invited to give a lecture titled “On the Development of Language Learners’ Metaphorical Competence from an Ontogenetic Perspective.” He underlined the key importance of the mastery of metaphor in expression and communication, and stated that the competence a language learner obtained to express oneself in terms of metaphor and the ability to understand metaphors can be taken as criteria during the development of language proficiency. He believed, the ontogenesis is related to the language development of an individual, reflecting his or her development of language proficiency from simple to complex, from concrete to abstract, and from explicit to metaphorical. Therefore, the study of the ontogenesis would be enlightening for language teaching, especially for foreign language teaching. At the ending Q&A session, Professor Li also had a discussion with students about network-based language, the development and the planning of language and other subjects.
In the afternoon, Professor Liu Yi from Shenzhen University gave his lecture naming “the Construction of ‘Belt and Road’ International Discourse System.” Adopting the functional linguistics approach, he provided such five perspectives of discourse analysis as the metaphorical, summary, deferential, external and implied perspective. Professor Liu analyzed the “Belt and Road” international discourse system in three developing stages from the five perspectives. He pointed out, being vigorous and extroverted, the system centering on world context shows that China is active to embrace the world and strive for interests of developing countries with the West using a universally recognized discourse model.
SFL always pays much attention to promote its students’ academic accomplishment and cultivate their consciousness of academic study. Through the 15th anniversary of the school foundation, renowned professors at home and abroad were invited to give lectures and a sound academic atmosphere was thus promoted.
