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The Practice of Language (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
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The Practice of Language (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
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How is linguistic theory related to linguistic practice? What do
theoretical notions and models tell us about real-life language
use? Are there any limits to what such notions and models can
reasonably be taken to accomplish? These questions are fundamental
to any serious investigation into the phenomena of human
communication. The essays in this book show that philosophers and
linguists of quite different brands have tended to give undue
priority to their own favourite theoretical framework, and have
presupposed that the descriptive scheme invoked by that framework
constitutes a pattern to which any linguistic practice somehow has
to conform. What unites the contributors to this volume is a
critical attitude towards such essentialist aspirations. By
investigating several concrete examples of this tendency - examples
collected from such seemingly disparate areas as structuralism,
contemporary analytic philosophy and feminist epistemology - the
authors collectively manage to cast doubt on the very attempt to
fit the whole of linguistic practice into a general theoretical
mould.
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