Adrian Pablé
Biographic Data
| ID | 975424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Pablé |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Pablé |
| SIGNATURE | PABLÉ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7986-4746 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reasserting the bedrock of personal experience: A semiological defense of anthropocentric linguistics
This article critiques the rise of posthumanist linguistics and emphasizes the need to reaffirm an anthropocentric perspective grounded in personal linguistic experience. Posthumanist approaches (weirdly) expand the boundaries of linguistic inquiry, incorporating non-human actors, artefacts, the dead, and spectral entities, while challenging traditional notions of language. Adopting a posthumanist stance shifts the focus away from the uniquely re…
Theories of perception between semiophilia and semiophobia
This paper argues that there exist philosophical disagreements over the nature and function of signs when it comes to theorizing perception. For this purpose, the paper compares three thinkers in terms of how they position themselves towards the thesis of perception as sign-mediated, namely Uexküll's semiotic biology, Gibson's ecological psychology, and Harris' integrationism. While Gibson stresses that perception is direct and unmediated, Harris…
Translingual Practices: Playfulness and Precariousness
Integrationism and language ideologies
The present special issue goes back to the online conference entitled Integrationism and Language Ideologies (March 15-20, 2021), which was organized by the Language Policy Group of the Federal University of Santa Catarina in conjunction with the International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication (IAISLC). The contributions in this issue are for the most part revised versions of the conference papers presented at …
On language and its limits
I consider three positions regarding the limits of language: two (mutually incompatible) ‘segregational’ approaches, which I will contrast with the ‘integrational’ approach advocated by Roy Harris. I shall argue that an integrationist construal of the limits of language cannot be dissociated from the Harrisian concept of ‘radical indeterminacy’. The latter notion is highly controversial within the linguistic orthodoxy, as it sponsors the idea tha…
Language and radical anthropocentrism: The view from the supercategory
The article critically engages with the posthumanist discourse on anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism. It adopts an “integrational” approach to signs, language, and communication, as outlined in the works of Oxford linguist Roy Harris. Integrational linguistics is committed to a demythologized view of “language,” which it considers to exist only as part of the experience of human individuals and human collectivities. From an integrational p…
Had the Neogrammarians spoken Wolof or Basaa: A reply to Ngué Um
In this response article to Emmanuel Ngué Um’s piece published in Language, Culture and Society , I examine Ngué Um’s thesis that structural linguistics has no reality in the African context, which he presents in the form of a critique of Saussure and Western linguistics. Ngué Um imagines Saussure as a (native) speaker of an African language, who would have refrained from theorizing languages the way he did, namely as theoretical fictions, if onl…
Linguistics for the apocalypse
Integrating biosemiotics: From a semiological point of view
This paper is a study in the ‘philosophy of semiotics’. It is centred on a critical approach to the Peircean sign conception, which underlies biosemiotics and the global perspective on signs. The present discussion tackles questions of ontological and epistemological interest, which it does by taking a distinctly semiological point of reference. The semiology which the present critique draws inspiration from is Roy Harris’ integrationism, an appr…
Integrating linguistic relativity
In what sense is integrational theory lay-oriented? Notes on Harrisian core concepts and explanatory terminology
Integrating the (dialogical) sign: Or Who's an Integrationist
Is a general non-ethnocentric theory of human communication possible? An integrationist approach
Abandoning the simple by disintegrating the sign: Semiological reflections on Edda Weigand’s (meta)theory
In this comparative paper I suggest that linguistic theories need to be discussed in terms of the metatheoretical presuppositions sustaining them. In view of Edda Weigand’s rejection of the linguistic sign and her critique of Roy Harris’ integrational linguistics for failing to abandon the sign as its working concept and not adopting a holistic model that accounts for the complexity of human communication, I will argue that the key to understandi…
Radical indeterminacy, idealism, realism: Benedetto Croce vs. Roy Harris
Polylanguaging, integrational linguistics and contemporary sociolinguistic theory: A commentary on Ritzau
In this article, we take up and expand upon a number of issues of linguistic theory raised in Ursula Ritzau's recent article ‘Learner language and polylanguaging: how language students’ ideologies relate to their written language use’ published in the Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. The present critique is informed by an integrational linguistic approach, from which perspective polylanguaging was recently discussed by one of the …
Putting it integrationally: Notes on Teubert and Sealey
The present paper responds to two discussion articles previously published in Language and Dialogue 3:2 and 4:2 : one by Wolfgang Teubert (“Was there a cat in the garden? Knowledge between discourse and the monadic self”), which is partly a critique of Roy Harris’ integrational epistemology (Harris 2009), and the other, itself a critical reply to Teubert, by Alison Sealey (“Cats and categories — reply to Teubert”). In this paper I adopt an integr…
Who wants Swiss English: Why a ‘lay-oriented’ sociolinguistics matters
Recently, new varieties of English, in particular insular ones, have been discovered and described by sociolinguists: Bermuda English, Falkland Islands English, St Helena English, Tristan da Cunha English, to name but a few. Concomitantly, applied linguists have started to take an interest in ‘lingua franca English’ as used in countries where English has no official status. Euro-English and, more recently, Swiss English are examples of such Engli…
An integrational response to Searlean realism, or how language does not relate to consciousness
The relationship between language and a science of consciousness is rarely treated as crucial for the field's metatheory (i.e., its underlying philosophical assumptions about the role and nature of language). John Searle is among those thinkers who has given language due attention as part of his realist philosophy, and semantic questions turn out to be in the forefront of his plea for a scientific approach to the phenomenon of consciousness. This…
Towards a new semiotics of landmark knowledge
This paper proposes to reconsider the relation between language, truth and knowledge, based on an integrational semiology as developed by Roy Harris: at its centre of interest is the question of what it is to know the name of a landmark, and how that in turn relates to the general concept of landmark knowledge. It is claimed here that previous research interested in referential talk involving landmarks adopted a “mythological” view of language an…
Logophilia, logophobia and the terra mota of personal linguistic experience
Roy Harris and integrational linguistics
Integrating the 'real
Why the semantics of 'good' and 'bad' isn't good enough: Popular Science and the 'Language Crux
Language, knowledge and reality: The integrationist on name variation
Language and social identity: An Integrationist Critique
The 'dialect myth' and socio-onomastics. The names of the castles of Bellinzona in an integrational perspective
Language, knowledge and reality: The integrationist on name variation
In what sense is integrational theory lay-oriented? Notes on Harrisian core concepts and explanatory terminology
Integrating the 'real
Integrating the (dialogical) sign: Or Who's an Integrationist
Is a general non-ethnocentric theory of human communication possible? An integrationist approach
Radical indeterminacy, idealism, realism: Benedetto Croce vs. Roy Harris
Logophilia, logophobia and the terra mota of personal linguistic experience
Integrating linguistic relativity
Why the semantics of 'good' and 'bad' isn't good enough: Popular Science and the 'Language Crux
The Goodman and his Faith: Signals of Local Colour in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Historical Fiction with Reference to Cultural Translation
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The Goodman and his Faith: Signals of Local Colour in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Historical Fiction with Reference to Cultural Translation
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Invariant Be in New England Folk Speech: Colonial and Postcolonial Evidence
This article attempts to document the history of finite be in New England folk speech, a phenomenon thus far neglected in scholarly publications devoted to American historical dialectology. The authors aim at proving that even though plural indicative be had been brought to the early colonies with the first settlers, be as a singular indicative form was a New Englandism, not attested until the late seventeenth century—consequently, the authors en…
The 'dialect myth' and socio-onomastics. The names of the castles of Bellinzona in an integrational perspective
Language, knowledge and reality: The integrationist on name variation
Language and social identity: An Integrationist Critique
Roy Harris and integrational linguistics
Integrating the 'real
Why the semantics of 'good' and 'bad' isn't good enough: Popular Science and the 'Language Crux
Towards a new semiotics of landmark knowledge
This paper proposes to reconsider the relation between language, truth and knowledge, based on an integrational semiology as developed by Roy Harris: at its centre of interest is the question of what it is to know the name of a landmark, and how that in turn relates to the general concept of landmark knowledge. It is claimed here that previous research interested in referential talk involving landmarks adopted a “mythological” view of language an…
Logophilia, logophobia and the terra mota of personal linguistic experience
Who wants Swiss English: Why a ‘lay-oriented’ sociolinguistics matters
Recently, new varieties of English, in particular insular ones, have been discovered and described by sociolinguists: Bermuda English, Falkland Islands English, St Helena English, Tristan da Cunha English, to name but a few. Concomitantly, applied linguists have started to take an interest in ‘lingua franca English’ as used in countries where English has no official status. Euro-English and, more recently, Swiss English are examples of such Engli…
An integrational response to Searlean realism, or how language does not relate to consciousness
The relationship between language and a science of consciousness is rarely treated as crucial for the field's metatheory (i.e., its underlying philosophical assumptions about the role and nature of language). John Searle is among those thinkers who has given language due attention as part of his realist philosophy, and semantic questions turn out to be in the forefront of his plea for a scientific approach to the phenomenon of consciousness. This…
Putting it integrationally: Notes on Teubert and Sealey
The present paper responds to two discussion articles previously published in Language and Dialogue 3:2 and 4:2 : one by Wolfgang Teubert (“Was there a cat in the garden? Knowledge between discourse and the monadic self”), which is partly a critique of Roy Harris’ integrational epistemology (Harris 2009), and the other, itself a critical reply to Teubert, by Alison Sealey (“Cats and categories — reply to Teubert”). In this paper I adopt an integr…
Polylanguaging, integrational linguistics and contemporary sociolinguistic theory: A commentary on Ritzau
In this article, we take up and expand upon a number of issues of linguistic theory raised in Ursula Ritzau's recent article ‘Learner language and polylanguaging: how language students’ ideologies relate to their written language use’ published in the Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. The present critique is informed by an integrational linguistic approach, from which perspective polylanguaging was recently discussed by one of the …
Abandoning the simple by disintegrating the sign: Semiological reflections on Edda Weigand’s (meta)theory
In this comparative paper I suggest that linguistic theories need to be discussed in terms of the metatheoretical presuppositions sustaining them. In view of Edda Weigand’s rejection of the linguistic sign and her critique of Roy Harris’ integrational linguistics for failing to abandon the sign as its working concept and not adopting a holistic model that accounts for the complexity of human communication, I will argue that the key to understandi…
Radical indeterminacy, idealism, realism: Benedetto Croce vs. Roy Harris
In what sense is integrational theory lay-oriented? Notes on Harrisian core concepts and explanatory terminology
Integrating the (dialogical) sign: Or Who's an Integrationist
Is a general non-ethnocentric theory of human communication possible? An integrationist approach
Integrating biosemiotics: From a semiological point of view
This paper is a study in the ‘philosophy of semiotics’. It is centred on a critical approach to the Peircean sign conception, which underlies biosemiotics and the global perspective on signs. The present discussion tackles questions of ontological and epistemological interest, which it does by taking a distinctly semiological point of reference. The semiology which the present critique draws inspiration from is Roy Harris’ integrationism, an appr…
Integrating linguistic relativity
Integrationism and language ideologies
The present special issue goes back to the online conference entitled Integrationism and Language Ideologies (March 15-20, 2021), which was organized by the Language Policy Group of the Federal University of Santa Catarina in conjunction with the International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication (IAISLC). The contributions in this issue are for the most part revised versions of the conference papers presented at …
On language and its limits
I consider three positions regarding the limits of language: two (mutually incompatible) ‘segregational’ approaches, which I will contrast with the ‘integrational’ approach advocated by Roy Harris. I shall argue that an integrationist construal of the limits of language cannot be dissociated from the Harrisian concept of ‘radical indeterminacy’. The latter notion is highly controversial within the linguistic orthodoxy, as it sponsors the idea tha…
Language and radical anthropocentrism: The view from the supercategory
The article critically engages with the posthumanist discourse on anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism. It adopts an “integrational” approach to signs, language, and communication, as outlined in the works of Oxford linguist Roy Harris. Integrational linguistics is committed to a demythologized view of “language,” which it considers to exist only as part of the experience of human individuals and human collectivities. From an integrational p…
Had the Neogrammarians spoken Wolof or Basaa: A reply to Ngué Um
In this response article to Emmanuel Ngué Um’s piece published in Language, Culture and Society , I examine Ngué Um’s thesis that structural linguistics has no reality in the African context, which he presents in the form of a critique of Saussure and Western linguistics. Ngué Um imagines Saussure as a (native) speaker of an African language, who would have refrained from theorizing languages the way he did, namely as theoretical fictions, if onl…
Philosophy (27 works) · Linguistics (25 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Epistemology (21 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Applied linguistics (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works)