Evicting the Speaking Subject
A Critique of Latvian Concepts of Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11264654 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sergei Kruk (0000-0003-1876-0932, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 447-463 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Baltic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-9778 • E-ISSN: 1751-7877 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01629778.2011.621736 |
| OpenAlex | W2230011419 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
This paper highlights some peculiarities of the nation–language conflation in Latvian linguistics and traces their evolution. Treating language as the perfect structure consolidating ideal speakers, linguists perceive native speakers as a homogenous community whose task is to reproduce the normative language structure. Speaking subjects are denied social agency, and divergence from the norm in communication is treated as an error. The paper argues that empirically observed language use can be explained by taking into account the pragmatic intentions of speaking subjects
Agency (philosophy · Conflation · Divergence (linguistics · Ideal (ethics · Latvian · Linguistics · Norm (philosophy · Normative · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Law · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |