Normativity in language and linguistics / edited by Aleksi Mäkilähde, Ville Leppänen, and Esa Itkonen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mäkilähde, Aleksi, author.

Contributor:

Mäkilähde, Aleksi, editor.

Leppänen, Ville, editor.

Itkonen, Esa, editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; 209.

Studies in language companion series ; 209

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Normativity (Ethics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

"This volume sets out to discuss the role of norms and normativity in both language and linguistics from a multiplicity of perspectives. These concepts are centrally important to the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and their role and nature need to be investigated in detail. The chapters address a range of issues from general questions about ontology, epistemology and methodology to aspects of particular subfields (such as semantics and historical linguistics) or phenomena (such as construal and code-switching). The volume aims to further our understanding of language and linguistics as well as to encourage further discussion on the metatheory of linguistics. Due to the fundamental nature of the issues under discussion, this volume will be of interest to all linguists regardless of their background or fields of expertise and to philosophers concerned with language or other normative domains"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Foreword

Norms and normativity in language and linguistics

Concerning the scope of normativity

Norms of language

A primer for linguistic normativists

The normative basis of construal

Language as a system of norms and the Voloshinovian critique of abstract objectivism

Linguistic variation and change

Intuition and beyond

Norms of correctness and rationality in research on code-switching

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027262165

9027262160