Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language Normativity

This edited book provides, for the first time in English, a global survey of the issue of "the linguistic feeling", meaning a speaker's/hearer's ability to subjectively and spontaneously appraise the normativity of a language that they are familiar with. The authors aim to understand how, today and in the past, within various disciplinary fields and intellectual contexts, language theorists have addressed the issue of the intuition of grammatical correctness and linguistic usage (a) by identifying such an intuitive capacity with a metacognitive process - that is, one's power of knowing about what he or she knows - and (b) by wondering whether and to what extent it consists of an emotion-based phenomenon. They draw on fields including structural linguistics, philosophy, aesthetics, literary theory, and anthropology to to provide scholars and students from various backgrounds with a complete overview of a central and multifaceted issue of past and present language sciences.

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.