Verbal Interaction of Brad Cohen in Front of the Class: Relevance, Frames and Footing

布萊德．柯恩在《叫我第一名》中的口語溝通：相關性、框架和立場

笪婷婷(Ting-Ting Da) ； 謝菁玉(Shelley Ching-yu Depner)

《應用語文學報》 12期 (2020/12) Pp. 27-50

https://doi.org/10.6906/JAL.202012_(12).0002

摘要

This study has examined how Brad Cohen, an interlocutor with Tourette's syndrome in the docudrama Front of the Class, sought relevance and based on this meta-representational ability, utilized frames and footing for invoking his social identity. It is shown that though the vocal tics were maintained by automatic and positive reinforcement, and socially threatening, cognitive-pragmatic skills were witnessed in Brad who could relate to other people and apply conversational strategies such as contextualization cues and discourse identities to negotiation. Scripted dialogue is valuable not because it represents spontaneous conversation but because it provides an alternative lens through which we can view the complex hierarchies of inferring process in a speaker with genetic disease and use this meta-psychological phenomenon as a base for interpreting such a speaker's communicative competence.

關鍵字

Tourette's syndrome ； cognitive-pragmatic skills ； relevance theory ； frames and footing ； contextualization cues ； discourse identities

並列摘要

本研究探討了記錄式劇情片《叫我第一名》中的男主角妥瑞氏症患者布萊德．柯恩的語言表達，依據關聯理論（relevance theory）以及框架與立場（frames and footing）來分析語料，藉以觀察布萊德的語言表達能力和其彰顯自我社會角色的方式。研究結果顯示，儘管布萊德常不自主地發出抽動聲（vocal tics）而遭到歧視，但他具備足夠的認知語用能力，在與他人進行口語溝通時充份運用了策略性的言談技巧，例如語境線索和話語身份。腳本化對話的價值，不在於它代表了自發性的對話，而在於它提供了另一個視角，讓我們可以分析特殊言談者在推理過程中所顯現的複雜層次，並以此後設心理學現象為基礎來解釋這樣的語言使用者的言談交際能力。

並列關鍵字

妥瑞氏症 ； 認知語用能力 ； 關聯理論 ； 框架與立場 ； 語境線索 ； 話語身份