从2014年11月30日到12月15日，广东外语外贸大学“云山讲座教授”、国际著名学者、国际期刊Intercultural Pragmatics和Chinese as a Second Language Research的主编IstvanKecskes在广东外语外贸大学的教育部人文社科重点研究基地—外国语言学及应用语言学研究中心围绕语用学、二语研究、跨语言文化交际等，进行了如下的学科前沿讲座：
1) Can intercultural pragmatics bring some new insight into pragmatic theories?
2) Is the “idiom principle” blocked in bilingual language production?
3) Sequential structure of discourse segment shaped by the interplay of recipient design and salience
4) Formulaic language use in Chinese as a Second Language
5) Intracultural and intercultural communication: Are they different?
6) The ways in which English language learners exhibit their interactional competence
冉永平教授介绍Istvan Kecskes
Istvan Kecskes 在第三届广外应用语言学论坛上作主旨发言
ISTVAN KECSKES is Professor of Linguistics and Communication at the State University of NewYork, Albany, USA where he teaches graduate courses in pragmatics, second language acquisition and bilingualism and directs the English as a Second Language PhD and MA programs. Professor Kecskes is the President of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA) and also President of CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research) Association.
His book “Foreign language and mother tongue” co-authored by Tunde Papp and published by Erlbaum in 2000 was the first book that described the effect of the second language on the first language based on a longitudinal research. Dr. Kecskes’ latest books are “Intercultural Pragmatics” published by Oxford University Press in 2013, an edited volume titled “Research in Chinese as a Second Language” published by De Gruyter in 2013 and another volume edited with Jesus Romero-Trillo “Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics” published by De Gruyter also in 2013.
Dr. Kecskes is the founding editor of the linguistics journal Intercultural Pragmatics and the Mouton Series in Pragmatics published by Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/New York, as well as the bilingual (Chinese-English) journal CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research) published by Mouton and the co-founding editor of “Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict” published by John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia (co-founder PilarGarcesBlitvich). He sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier), Pragmatics & Society (Benjamins), International Journal of Multilingualism (Taylor & Francis), Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (De Gruyter), International Journal of Language and Culture (Benjamins), the Journal of East Asian Pragmatics (Equinox), the Journal of Foreign Languages (Waiguoyu) and the journal XiandaiWaiyu published in China. Dr. Kecskes is also on the editorial board of four book series: Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology (Springer), Series in Pragmatics (Cambridge Scholarly Publishing), Pragmatic Interfaces (Equinox), and Studies in General Linguistics (Hungarian Academy of Sciences).
Dr. Kecskes received a Senior Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in the Rockefeller Research Center in Bellagio, Italy in 2004, a Senior Fellowship from the Mitteleuropa Foundation, Bolzano, Italy in 2005, a Honorary Professorship from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou in 2009, a Yunshan Chair Professorship from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China in 2011, and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in 2013.
He is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Excellence in Research Award of State University of New York, the co-director of the Barcelona Summer School on Bi-and Multilingualism, and also the director of the bi-annual conference on intercultural pragmatics.
