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Redefining Linguistics (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics) (Paperback)
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Redefining Linguistics (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics) (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
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The academic discipline of linguistics is at a critical stage of
development. Whatever consensus there may have been fifteen or even
ten years ago is fast disappearing. A process of redefinition is
underway, and it is the aim of this volume to contribute to that
process, explain why a redefinition is needed, and how it should
proceed. In the case of linguistics the subject is also the subject
matter. Many linguists have ignored the problem of definition,
simply regarding linguistics as the 'science of language itself'.
What, though, is 'language itself'? Is it a language, ie English,
Swahili? Or, language in a more general sense? The primary goal of
a redefinition of linguistics should be to demonstrate that
language is not an objective matter. Linguistics is, and should be,
the study of whatever is linguistically pertinent. A linguistics
redefined would look at how we interpret and construct our
day-to-day communication acts, what views of language are shared by
and opposed by societies, and the source and roles that these views
play in our living and learning experience. These papers argue the
case for such a redefinition more explicitly than has ever been
done before in modern linguistic theory. Such a redefined
perspective, precisely because it is a perspective, subject to
'outside' influence, and in constant dialogue with the perspective
of the other human sciences, must be endlessly redefined.
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