Humanities and the public sphere
A pragmatic perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21201215 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jef Verschueren (0000-0002-4120-9068, University of Antwerp, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 141-161 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pragmatics and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1878-9714 • E-ISSN: 1878-9722 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ps.7.1.06ver |
| OpenAlex | W2418702743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article starts from the observation of current changes in the nature of a globalizing public sphere for which older structural boundaries have lost much of their relevance. Though the public sphere has traditionally been a topic for social scientists (and philosophers), a redefinition in terms of the realm of publicly accessible meaning, and of struggles over socially and politically important meaning, necessitates a contribution from the humanities. In particular, linguistic pragmatics, providing tools for an analysis of the way in which explicit and implicit forms of meaning interact in the process of generating meanings, is argued to be a useful instrument. The argument is supported with an analysis of the differences in meaning landscapes that emerge even in different-language versions of the ‘same’ text, illustrating how dependent publicly available meaning is on basic pragmatic processes. The article concludes that a maturing science of language use is therefore needed to understand variations in the accounts of social and political reality that people in a globalizing public sphere live by
Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Pragmatics · Public sphere · Realm · Social reality · Social science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy
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The Making of a European Public Sphere
Linguistic Ecology
Communication and the Evolution of Society
Human ecology
Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities
Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities
The structural transformation of the public sphere
The theory of communicative action
The European Public Sphere and the Media
The Public Sphere
Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis
Modernity
Understanding Pragmatics
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The structural transformation of the public sphere
Mind and nature
A novel experimental paradigm for distinguishing between what is said and what is implicated
The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |