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Theorizing Language

Analysis, Normativity, Rhetoric, History

By: Talbot J. Taylor

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Hardcover | 5 November 1997 | Edition Number 2

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Although what language users in different cultures say about their own language has long been recognized as of potential interest, its theoretical importance to the study of language has typically been thought to be no more than peripheral. Theorizing Language is the first book to place the reflexive character of language at the very centre both of its empirical study and of its theoretical explanation.

Language can only be explained as a cultural product of the reflexive application of its own creative powers to construct, regulate, and give conceptual form to objects of understanding. Language is itself, first and foremost, an object of cultural understanding. Theoretical analyses of language which have neglected its reflexive character, or simply taken its effects for granted, merely impose their own artificial structures on their analytical object.

The first part of this book discusses the consequences of neglecting this reflexive character for the technical concepts and methods which are used in analysing different types of communicational phenomena. In the second part, normativity - a crucial aspect of language's reflexive nature - is examined. The book's third and final part focuses on particular issues in the history of linguistic thought which bear witness to the rhetoric of language theorizing as a reflexive form of inquiry.

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Semantics & Discourse Analysis Philosophy of Language Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Science Science in General History of Science Philosophy

Introduction
Enculturating language
Analytical Criteria
Scriptism and the anlysis of ideal speech
A Wittgensteinian perspective in linguistics
Do you understand? Criteria of understanding in verbal interaction
Communication and literary style: the principle of intersubjectivity
PartNormativity
Reflexivity, politics, and explanation in conversation analysis
Which is to be master? Normativity and linguistic form
Rhetoric and History
Why we need a theory of language
Communicational scepticism and the discourse of order
Bruner and Condillac on learning how to talk
The anthropomorphic and the sceptical
The origin of language: why it never happened
References
Index
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