摘要
本文以Pearl&Mackenzie(2018)提出的“因果关系之梯”为框架,考察和分析新冠疫情下,人们对各种疫情防控政策、措施及其效果的因果认知与反思归因。特别是通过相关的语言表达,来提取和分析人们对疫情及干预措施的种种观察与认识,揭示人们怎样洞察干预行为与防控效果之间的因果关系并做出推论;特别是从反事实表达(比如,“假如我们当时[不]采取社交隔离措施,其结果会怎样”等)上,来窥测不同地区的人们对于疫情防控措施及其效果的因果认知与反思归因、责任追究意识与道德风险考量。
Drawing upon the theoretical framework of‘ladder of causation’proposed by Pearl&Mackenzie(2018),this paper examines and analyses people’s causal cognition and attributional reflection on various prevention and control policies and measures as well as their effects in the pandemic situation of the COVID-19.To analyse people’s different observations and understandings of the pandemic,relevant linguistic expressions about the COVID-19 pandemic and its treatment measures are extracted from news reports and press coverage with an aim to reveal how people perceive the causal relation between actions of intervention and effects of control and thus to make inferences about it.A special focus is put on counter-factual expressions,e.g.,Jiǎrúwǒmen dāngshí[bù]cǎiqǔshèjiāo gélícuòshī,qíjiéguǒhuìzěnyàng?(If we had[not]taken the measure of social distancing at that time,what would the result have been?)We argue that through examination of the textual forms of syntactic patterns and semantic structures,one is able to unpack the expressive features concerning people’s causal cognition and attributional reflection.The findings show that such expressions can be utilized to gauge the judgements of people in different regions on causal cognition and attributional reflection,and they also demonstrate the awareness of accountability and evaluation towards the morality risk between prevention measures and their effects.
出处
《语言战略研究》
2020年第5期32-47,共16页
Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning
基金
教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大研究项目“汉语意合语法框架下的词汇语义知识表示及其计算系统研究”(项目编号:18JJD740003)
国家社科基金重大项目《基于“互联网+”的国际汉语教学资源与智慧教育平台研究》(项目编号:18ZDA295)的资助。
关键词
因果关系之梯
新冠疫情
防控政策与措施
反事实表达
社交隔离
ladder of causation
COVID-19 Pandemic
prevention and control policies and measures
counter-factual expressions
social distancing
作者简介
袁毓林,男,北京大学教授,主要研究方向为理论语言学和汉语语言学。电子邮箱:yuanyl@pku.edu.cn。
