摘要
近年来,国内外越来越多的学者开始关注模因学。但我们认为,模因学难以成为一个独立的学科,甚至它的科学性也值得质疑。作为一个学科,模因学没有明确的研究范围和研究对象,没有自足的元语言系统和明确的理论目标,它与其它学科的关系也有待廓清。模因学理论的科学性欠缺表现在如下四个方面,首先,我们无法知道模因的传递是源于人的本性还是习性;其次,对模因学来说,科学的实证传统彻底丧失;第三,文化是否能够遗传以及如何遗传难以界定;第四,意向与意向性的地位难以确定。
Despite its growing popularity in China and abroad in recent years,memetics has difficulties sustaining its claim as an independent discipline or as a branch of science.It does not have a well-defined research domain,nor does it have a systematic set of terminology.Even what is its theoretical purpose and how it is related to other disciplines remain unclear.And it fails to take a clear-cut position concerning four issues fundamental to its conceptualization: 1.whether the replication of meme is a result of nature or nurture;2.what is its attitude toward the positivist tradition;3.how culture is inherited;4.how intention or intentionality involved in culture inheritance should be delimited.
出处
《外国语言文学》
2006年第3期145-149,210,共6页
Foreign Language and Literature Studies
基金
湖南省社科基金课题(编号05BR29)的阶段性成果
