On the Dawning of Different Aspects of Life in a Pluralistic Social World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3135652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ragnar Rommetveit (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 595 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1772034 |
| OpenAlex | W2334571748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
The growing concern with meaning within linguistics, sociology and psychology may be interpreted as a sign of emancipation from a rather puritan and poorly understood social scientific variant of positivistic philosophy. Recent reentries of the term meaning on scenes of scientific and philosophical discourse, however, tend to be accompanied by explicitly held and/or tacitly endorsed monistic assumptions about our language and the world (Rommetveit 1974). Such assumptions, I have argued, are revealed in Searle's (1969) recourse to unequivocal literal meanings of verbal expressions in his theory of speech acts, as well as in Smedslund's (1969) redefinition of the data of scientific psychology as the public meanings of a person's acts. Implications of a pluralistic outlook, on the other hand, are explored in philosophical analysis of ambiguity, social-psychological studies of social representations, and interactionist personality psychology. Thus, Wright (1978) considers ambiguity the rule rather than an exception in human communication, and to agree in order to achieve intersubjectivity is hence in part to neglect differences. A central thesis in current French psychology of social representations, moreover, is that, la realite dans laquelle nous vivons [...] peut avoir des significations multiples, existant c6te a c6St (Moscovici 1979). (the reality in which we live [...] can have multiple significations which exist side by side.) And meanings of situations are according to modern interactionism necessarily to some extent ideographic and engendered by persons interacting in those situations (Endler and Magnusson 1976). Human discourse takes place in and deals with a multifaceted, only fragmentarily known and only partially shared social world
Social life · Social science · Sociology · Cognitive and psychological constructs research · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Social Representations and Identity
Essays on the sociology of knowledge.
Features of similarity.
On Multiple Realities
The social construction of reality
Language and thought
Toward an interactional psychology of personality
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities
Sociology and the Irony Model
Speech Acts
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 1990 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |