The Grammar of Social Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2300701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hans L Zetterberg (Bromma, Sweden, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 245-256 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Sociologica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-6993 • E-ISSN: 1502-3869 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0001699306067706 |
| OpenAlex | W1964472487 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Claude Lévi-Strauss hinted that society was like a language. Kenneth Pike's distinction between emic and etic vernaculars probes the relation between the language in a society and the language of social science. Our thesis is that etic scholarly language that classifies social reality is synonymous with some deep linguistic structure (in Noam Chomsky's sense) of everyday emic language, in some measure unconscious for the user, but discoverable by science. Adding insights of Charles Morris and Charles Stevenson, we maintain that language becomes differentiated into descriptive, evaluative and prescriptive usages, each of which contains executive and emotive components. Such a language can codify societal orders, represent riches, summarize knowledge, embody beauty, define sacredness and express virtues. It can be subject to the operations of the common language of sciences, i.e. logics, mathematics and statistics. It opens an easy door to social structuration and can rephrase dramas of human life
Comprehension approach · Emic and etic · Emotive · Epistemology · Grammar · Language education · Language-game · Linguistics · Politeness · Relation (database · Social reality · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of language · Subject (documents · Anthropology · Computer Science · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
On theory and verification in sociology
Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior
Course in General Linguistics
On The Language Instinct
Lectures on Government and Binding
Communication and Social Order
A Grammar of Motives
A dramatistic view of the origins of language
Social Pressures, Attitudes and Democratic Processes
Social Pressures, Attitudes and Democratic Processes
The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
Anthropologie structurale
The Savage Mind
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |