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| Author: | Love, N. |
| Title: | Science, language and linguistic culture |
| Journal: | Language & Communication
2009 : JAN, VOL. 29:1, p. 26-46 |
| Index terms: | languages culture science cognition |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | If we let our first-order activities as users of language amenable to inspection and inquiry conducted by means of language itself, we must abstract certain aspects of those activities from the behavioral continuum in which they are embedded. They must be set up as objects. First-order language use may come to be understood as the deployment by instantiation of these objects. Codification of a consistent set of these objects is essentially what gives us a language. This article discusses the question how far these processes are neutral with respect to the different cultural backgrounds against which they may occur or be carried out. It also examines what the implications of the proposed answer are for linguistics as the science of language and for inquiries influenced by linguistics. |
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