Semio-Pragmatics as Politics: On Guattari and Deleuze's Theory of Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-284
Author(s):  
Susana Caló
Keyword(s):  
Political Practice ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Structural Linguistics ◽  
Theory Of Language

Focusing on Guattari and Deleuze's collaborative critique of structural linguistics, this article claims that rather than offering an ‘escape from language’, Guattari and Deleuze recast language as a social and political practice. Through a reading of Guattari and Deleuze's analysis of Saussure, their reinterpretation of Hjelmslev, and a discussion of the concepts of order-words and minor use of language, the article shows how, to do this, the authors develop a social and semiotic critique whereby the very concept of language changes from representation to intervention in a material and social field.

scholarly journals Language and legitimacy: Is pragmatist political theory fallacious?

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Fossen
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
The Way

Eva Erman and Niklas Möller have recently criticised a range of political theorists for committing a pragmatistic fallacy, illicitly drawing normative conclusions from politically neutral ideas about language. This paper examines their critique with respect to one of their primary targets: the pragmatist approach to political legitimacy that I proposed in earlier work, which draws on Robert Brandom’s theory of language. I argue that the charge relies on a misrepresentation of the role of pragmatist ideas about language in my analysis of legitimacy. Pragmatism’s significance for thinking about political legitimacy does not lie in the normative conclusions it justifies but in the way it reorients our thinking towards political practice. This raises the deeper question of what we are to expect from a theory of legitimacy. I argue that Erman and Möller presuppose a widely held but unduly restrictive conception of what a normative theory of legitimacy consists in and that pragmatism can broaden the scope of enquiry: a theory of legitimacy should not focus narrowly on the content and justification of criteria, but more fundamentally aim to explicate the forms of political activity in which such criteria are at stake.

scholarly journals Language and the novel in globalization

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Cavalcanti Nuto
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Contemporary Novel ◽  
Ferdinand De Saussure ◽  
Structural Linguistics ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The Relationship

This essay approaches linguistic and cultural issues associated with globalization, language and the novel in order to demonstrate how the novel as a literary genre can express the tensions of globalization. The main theoretical basis is Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of language and the novel. Concerning language the paper recalls the discrepancy between the linguistic thought of Bakhtin’s circle and the structural linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure, emphasizing that a linguistic based on utterance enables a suitable link between structural system and society. The paper explains the difference between centripetal and centrifugal forces of language, according to Bakhtin and their relationship with globalization. It also explains Bakhtin’s concept of the novel, stressing the relationship of the genre as a dialogic plurality of discourses, in order to demonstrate how suitable the novel is to express the globalized world. Theories of globalization are confronted and the problems related to globalization are exposed. Following Milton Santo’s thought, the paper refl ects on the possibility of another globalization, not only expansive, but also integrative. By commenting the cultural situation of certain writers and their attempts to express it, this essay combines Bakhtin’s thought with theories of globalization in order to point out possible responses of contemporary novel.

Rhetoric and Psychoanalysis

2014 ◽  
pp. 682-694
Author(s):  
Gilbert Chaitin
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Mimetic Theory ◽  
Creative Power ◽  
Structural Linguistics ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

In the 1950s, Jacques Lacan marshaled the concepts of structural linguistics in order to assert the homology between Sigmund Freud’s primary processes of condensation and displacement and the rhetorical tropes of metaphor and metonymy in unconscious formations. His anti-mimetic theory of language, the symbolic, emphasized the power of metonymy to express the individual’s desire for being and the potential of metaphor to create the signified that would capture the unique being of the analysand. In the 1960s, Lacan abandoned his earlier belief in the creative power of the symbolic; now it had become the realm of the universal in which all are the same. In his last years, Lacan reinstated poetry and rhetoric as the key players in the process of psychoanalysis, but now it was their ability to transgress the rules of language that allowed them to aim toward the inexpressible uniqueness and dignity of the individual.

scholarly journals Być w mówieniu i być mówionym – o teorii języka Jacques’a Lacana i jej konsekwencjach dla podmiotowości

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-125
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Michalik
Keyword(s):  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Structural Linguistics ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Different Origins ◽  
Unambiguous Assignment

It seems rather obvious that Jacques Lacan’s theory is Freudian psychoanalysis combined with structural linguistics. But it is not so conclusive: in Lacan’s work we can find many elements with different origins to linguistics. Moreover, Lacan’s subversion of structuralist theses makes any unambiguous assignment impossible. In the article, the author describes the evolution of Lacan’s theory of language and its consequences for the issue of subjectivity in psychoanalysis resulting from the use of linguistic tools.

A Computational Theory of Language

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 686-687
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Pulman
Keyword(s):  
Computational Theory ◽  
Theory Of Language

Language policy: An economics perspective

2016 ◽  
pp. 128-140
Author(s):  
D. Kadochnikov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Economic Phenomenon ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Methodological Aspects

Economic theory of language policy treats a language as an economic phenomenon. A language situation is considered to be an economic, or market, situation, while language policy becomes an element of economic policies. The paper aims to systematize and to further develop theoretical and methodological aspects of this promising research field situated between economics and sociolinguistics.

[review of:] Vyacheslav Ivanov & Peter Arkadiev, eds. 2013. Studies in the Typology of Slavic, Baltic and Balkan Languages

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 221-239
Author(s):  
Ilja Seržant
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Primary Reference ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Vyacheslav Ivanov

Вячᴇᴄлᴀʙ Вᴄ. Иʙᴀнов (отв. ред.), Пᴇᴛᴘ М. Аᴘкᴀдьᴇв (сост.), Исследования по типологии славянских, балтийских и балканских языков (преимущественно в свете языковых контактов). Санкт-Петербург: Алетейя, 2013. / Vʏᴀᴄʜᴇsʟᴀv Ivᴀɴov & Pᴇᴛᴇʀ Aʀᴋᴀᴅɪᴇv, eds., Studies in the Typology of Slavic, Baltic and Balkan Languages (with primary reference to language contact). St Petersburg: Aletheia, 2013. ɪsʙɴ 978-5-91419-778-7. The main focus of the book is on various language contact situations as well as areal interpretations of particular phenomena against a wider typological background. The idea is to provide a broader overview of each phenomenon discussed, bringing in comparisons with the neighbouring languages. Two major linguistic areas are in the focus of the book: the Balkan and Eastern Circum-Baltic areas. The book is an important contribution to these fields as well as to areal typology and the theory of language contact in general, meeting all standards for a solid scientific work.

A Theory of Language and Mind

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ermanno Bencivenga
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Language

Towards an Archival Critique: Opening Possibilities for Addressing Neoliberalism in the Archival Field

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marika Cifor ◽  
Jamie A. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Contemporary Life

Neoliberalism, as economic doctrine, as political practice, and even as a "governing rationality" of contemporary life and work, has been encroaching on the library and information studies (LIS) field for decades. The shift towards a conscious grappling with social justice and human rights debates and concerns in archival studies scholarship and practice since the 1990s opens the possibility for addressing neoliberalism and its elusive presence. Despite its far-reaching influence, neoliberalism has yet to be substantively addressed in archival discourse. In this article, we propose a set of questions for archival practitioners and scholars to reflect on and consider through their own hands-on practices, research, and productions with records, records creators, and distinct archival communities in order to develop an ongoing archival critique. The goal of this critique is to move towards "an ethical practice of community, as an important mode of participation." This article marks a starting point for critically engaging the archival studies discipline along with the LIS field more broadly by interrogating the discursive and material evidences and implications of neoliberalism.

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