A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Historical Materialism)

written English and an elevated register than it does spoken English (the same grammar states that it is met with twice as often ...

purposes (as are all the rules of grammar) are not really the same thing as the linguistic translation of information inscribed ...

(24) Is it for you? (25) Is it for yourself? We see how the syntax of the reflexive pronoun, supposedly inscribed in the genetic ...

language. If language is lodged in what Chomsky calls ‘the mind/brain’, economic production is lodged in what might be called ‘t ...

maxims. Being innate, the rules governing reciprocal and reflexive constructions are of the same type as the laws of physics. As ...

A spontaneous philosophy for scientists There is an aspect of Chomsky’s work that I have not yet broached. It is not the least i ...

The situation is clear. On the one hand, there is the science of language, which is concerned with biological phenomena – langua ...

communication. To supporters of the primates, who laud the ability of bonobos to acquire vocabulary and use it in their interact ...

because not all metaphors are appropriate: that of ‘organ’ involves the second abstraction) to the individual who is the seat of ...

a materialist and objective element, derived from scientific practice; and an idealist element, the reflection in science of phi ...

those non-sciences, characterised as ‘literary’ by Althusser, which, not really possessing an object in the scientific sense, ha ...

in the broadest or narrowest sense of the term. For Chomsky, in fact, linguistics can at best only be a provisional science; and ...

structure; generalisations from experience such as connectionism – that contemporary variant of behaviourism – envisages them; a ...

Chapter Three Critique of the Philosophy of Language Thinking with Habermas To attempt to construct a Marxist philosophy of lang ...

length in his magnum opus, The Theory of Communicative Action, can be formulated in a few words: the very structure of language ...

on dialogue. Mutual understanding (like co-operation in Grice’s theory of conversation, which is one of Habermas’s sources of in ...

which takes interlocution to be a fact of experience, something ever pre-given, and seeks to describe the normative conditions o ...

(it corresponds to internal reality), and accuracy (it corresponds to social reality). We see how Habermas takes up Anglo-Americ ...

is precisely what is common to the social and the linguistic, that inter- subjectivity is constructed on the basis of normativit ...

Thinking against Habermas I shall start from the basic thesis on the structure of interlocution, which presupposes agreement or ...