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Is the study of language ideologically neutral? If so, is this
study objective and autonomous? One of the most cherished
assumptions of modern academic linguistics is that the study of
language is, or should be, ideologically neutral. This professed
ideological neutrality goes hand-in-hand with claims of scientific
objectivity and explanatory autonomy. Ideologies of Language
counters these claims and assumptions by demonstrating not only
their descriptive inaccuracy but also their conceptual incoherence.
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.
This book deals with the need to rethink the aims and methods of
contemporary linguistics. Orthodox linguists' discussions of
linguistic form fail to exemplify how language users become
language makers. Integrationist theory is used here as a solution
to this basic problem within general linguistics. The book is aimed
at an interdisciplinary readership, comprising those engaged in
study, teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences,
including linguistics, philosophy, sociology and psychology.
Is the study of language ideologically neutral? If so, is this
study objective and autonomous? One of the most cherished
assumptions of modern academic linguistics is that the study of
language is, or should be, ideologically neutral. This professed
ideological neutrality goes hand-in-hand with claims of scientific
objectivity and explanatory autonomy. Ideologies of Language
counters these claims and assumptions by demonstrating not only
their descriptive inaccuracy but also their conceptual incoherence.
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.
This book deals with the need to rethink the aims and methods of contemporary linguistics. Orthodox linguists' discussions of linguistic form fail to exemplify how language users become language makers. Integrationist theory is used here as a solution to this basic problem within general linguistics. The book is aimed at an interdisciplinary readership, comprising those engaged in study, teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences, including linguistics, philosophy, sociology and psychology. eBook available with sample pages: 0203220536
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in the twentieth century. Each chapter contains an extract from a 'landmark' text followed by a commentary, which places the ideas in their social and intellectual context. The book is written in an accessible and non-technical manner. The book summarizes the contribution of the key thinkers who have shaped modern linguistics. These include Austin, Chomsky, Derrida, Firth, Goffman, Harris, Jakobson, Labov, Orwell, Sapir, Whorf and Wittgenstein. This second volume follows on from Landmarks in Linguistic Thought I, which introduces the key thinkers up to the twentieth century. The series is ideal for anyone with an interest in the history of linguistics or of ideas.
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in the twentieth century. Each chapter contains an extract from a 'landmark' text followed by a commentary, which places the ideas in their social and intellectual context. The book is written in an accessible and non-technical manner. The book summarizes the contribution of the key thinkers who have shaped modern linguistics: Austin, Chomsky, Derrida, Firth, Goffman, Harris, Jakobson, Labov, Orwell, Sapir, Whorf and Wittgenstein. This second volume follows on from Landmarks in Linguistic Thought I, which introduces the key thinkers up to the twentieth century. The series is ideal for anyone with an interest in the history of linguistics or of ideas.
Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them?
Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned
with questions about "what" we understand and "how" we understand,
rather than with the logically prior question "whether" we
understand each other. An affirmative answer to the latter question
is apparently taken for granted. However, in Mutual
Misunderstanding, Talbot J. Taylor shows that the sceptical doubts
about communicational understanding do in fact have a profoundly
important, if as yet unacknowledged, function in the construction
of theories of language and interpretation. Mutual Misundertanding
thus presents a strikingly original analysis of the rhetorical
patterns underlying Western linguistic thought, as exemplified in
the works of John Locke, Jacques Derrida, Gottlob Frege, Jonathan
Culler, Noam Chomsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, H. Paul Grice, Michael
Dummet, Stanley Fish, Alfred Schutz, Barbara Herrnstein Smith,
Harold Garfinkel, and others. This analysis reveals how, by the
combined effect of appeals to "commonsense" and anxieties about
implications of relativism, scepticism has a determining role in
the discursive development of a number of the intellectual
disciplines making up the "human sciences" today, including
critical theory, literary hermeneutics, philosophy of language and
logic, communication theory, discourse and conversation analysis,
pragmatics, stylistics, and linguistics. Consequently, this
provocative study will be of value to readers from a wide variety
of disciplinary backgrounds.
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