主題講者

陳新仁，南京大學外國語學院教授、博士生導師，南京大學外國語言學研究所所長、中國語言戰略研究中心副主任，East Asian Pragmatics主編、《外國語文研究》主編、《語用學研究》第二主編， 多家刊物編委，主要研究興趣包括語用學理論與應用、外語教育與教學、語言政策與語言規劃等。獨著、合著、譯著19部，在Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Society, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 《外語教學與研究》、《外國語》、《當代語言學》、《現代外語》、《語言科學》等刊物發表學術論文170餘篇，主持完成國家社科基金項目2項。 入選教育部“新世紀優秀人才支持計畫”和江蘇省 “333高層次人才培養工程”。 主要學術兼職包括中國邏輯學會語用學專業委員會會長、中國英漢語比較研究會英語教學分會和話語研究專業委員會副會長等。 匈牙利科學院客座講席教授，哈德斯菲爾德大學（英國）、華中科技大學、天津大學等國內外15所高校兼職教授。

演講題目：The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts

摘要

The talk aims to report an empirical study that explores the performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts. The analysis of interactional data and post-event interview data indicates that moral identification may outweigh power relationship and social distance in the interactional practice, leading to constructive effects on the relationship between the intervener and the intervenee even in apparently conflictive situations. As a complement to the previous research on ritual communication such as countering the heckler and bystander intervention which focus on genuine aggression, the present study sheds light on the ritual act of toast intervention as a form of “mock moral aggression,” revealing the relatively greater weightiness of moral identification as opposed to other contextual factors and its role in explaining the relational consequences of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts.