讲座题目：Voice in Written Discourse

讲座人：Paul Kei Matsuda （Arizona State University）

时间：2015年1月9日（周五）下午14:30-16:30

地点：北京外国语大学东院 图书馆三层研讨厅

讲座人简介：

Paul Kei Matsuda is Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing at Arizona State University. He is also Concurrent Professor at Nanjing University.

He has published widely on second language writing in various journals and edited collections in applied linguistics, rhetoric and composition and TESOL, and has received a number of prestigious awards for his publications. He has presented plenary and keynote talks as well as lectures and workshops in various countries, including China, Guatemala,  Hungary, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Qatar, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and throughout the United States.

Paul is Founding Chair of the Symposium on Second Language Writing and Series Editor of the Parlor Press Series on Second Language Writing. He has also served as the founding chair of the CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing and the Chair of the Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL (NNEST) Caucus.

The First Vice President and President-Elect of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), he is current organizing American Association for Applied Linguistics (#AAAL2015) in Toronto, Canada (March 21-24, 2015).

Paul has previously served as the director of writing programs at the University of New Hampshire and Arizona State University. He also has taught a wide variety of courses in applied linguistics, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, and TESOL at Purdue University, Miami University, and the University of New Hampshire. In addition, he has held visiting professor and researcher positions at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Jilin University (China), Shih Chien University (Chinese Taipei), Tamkang University (Chinese Taipei), Nagoya University (Japan), Penn State University (USA), Thammasat University (Thailand), the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR), and the University of Utah (USA).

讲座内容：

The notion of voice has long been a popular metaphor to capture the sense of author identity in written discourse. In its early manifestations, voice tended to be closely tied to the ideology of individualism. More recently, some scholars have problematized the notion of individual voice and proposed definitions of voice from a social perspective. Despite the extensive discussion of voice over the years, however, it has been difficult to study or teach voice across personal, professional and academic contexts for at least two reasons. First, traditional definitions of voice tended to privilege individual voice, making them inappropriate for the study and teaching of writing in professional and academic contexts. Second, neither individual nor social definitions of voice provides criteria that help to identify voice empirically; as a result, the identification of voice has long relied on intuition alone (you either heard it or you didn't), making the study and teaching of voice impractical, if not downright impossible. In this presentation, I will propose a theory of voice that accounts for both individual and social perspectives. I will discuss the evolution of the theory and present several studies of voice to illustrate how voice can be studied across personal, professional and academic contexts.

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