Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language Normativity

This book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue of linguistic feeling , the subject's metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the normative lexical, syntactic, morphological, phonological dimensions of a definite language he or she is acquainted with. The volume's twelve contributions aim to revisit a concept that, through a fluctuating terminology ( Sprachgefühl, sentiment de la langue , linguistic intuitions, etc.), had developed, since the late 18 th century, within a variety of cultural contexts and research traditions, and whose theoretical, epistemological, and historical ins and outs had not been systematically explored so far. Beginning with a long opening chapter, the book consists of two parts, one tracing the multifaceted approaches to linguistic feeling from Herder to Wittgenstein, and one offering a representative overview of the debates about the issue at stake in current linguistics and philosophy, while addressing the question of the place of metacognition, normativity, and affectivity in language processes.

Provides, for the first time in English, a synoptic and multifaceted study of the issue of the linguistic feeling Traces the expression 'linguistic feeling' from its appearance in the early 19th century to the present Addresses the crucial question of the relationship between the linguistic feeling and affectivity

Auteur

David Romand is a philosopher, historian of knowledge, and language theorist, currently an associate researcher at Centre Gilles-Gaston Granger, Aix-Marseille University (France). As a language theorist, he is particularly interested in semantic, semiotic, and metalinguistic issues, with a strong focus on the German-speaking context and affective science.

Michel Le Du is full professor of philosophy at the University of Aix-Marseille and a member of the Centre Gilles-Gaston Granger. He co-edited the volume Wittgenstein and Aesthetics, Perspectives and Debates (Berlin, Ontos, 2011) and has also written numerous papers on Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind and philosophy of social sciences.

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This book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue of linguistic feeling, the subject s metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the normative lexical, syntactic, morphological, phonological dimensions of a definite language he or she is acquainted with. The volume s twelve contributions aim to revisit a concept that, through a fluctuating terminology ( Sprachgefühl, sentiment de la langue, linguistic intuitions, etc.), had developed, since the late 18th century, within a variety of cultural contexts and research traditions, and whose theoretical, epistemological, and historical ins and outs had not been systematically explored so far. Beginning with a long opening chapter, the book consists of two parts, one tracing the multifaceted approaches to linguistic feeling from Herder to Wittgenstein, and one offering a representative overview of the debates about the issue at stake in current linguistics and philosophy, while addressing the question of the place of metacognition, normativity, and affectivity in language processes.

Contenu

1. Introduction.- Part I Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Linguistic Feeling from Herder to Wittgenstein.- 2. What the Germans Call Sprachgefühl . Sprachgefühl in Early German Linguistics. Selected Examples of Ways of Understanding.- 3. Assent, Sentiment and Linguistic Feeling in Jac. van Ginneken's Psycholinguistics.- 4. On the Normative Side of Saussure's Linguistic Feeling.- 5. Sapir's Form-Feeling and its Historical Context.- 6. Edward Sapir: Form-Feeling in Language, Culture, and Poetry.- 7. Meaning-Blindness, and Linguistic Feeling: Wittgenstein on How We Experience Meaning.- Part II Current Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Linguistic Feeling.- 8. Intuitions in Linguistics: A Blessing or a Curse?.- 9. The Good, the Bad, and the Yucky: Valenced Linguistic Intuitions and Linguistic Methodology.- 10. Linguistic Feeling in Real Life and in Linguistics.- 11. Linguistic Feeling and Grammaticalization: From Concepts to Case Studies.- 12. LinguisticFeeling: A Relational Approach Incorporating Epistemology, Theories of Language, and Human-Machine Interaction.