Sociology, Cognition, and Language: A Methodology of Observation
Hajek, Isabelle
Sociology, Cognition, and Language: A Methodology of Observation - 2011.
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This paper proposes a methodology for observing linguistic forms of cognition aimed at resolving the sociological and epistemological problems raised by the multiplicity of analytical perspectives on the relationship between thought and reality, and the unequal role assigned to language in activities entered into by social actors that produce signification. Inspired by the work of Ferry (1991, 2004), this methodology, through the hypothesis of language grammars that actors activate to give meaning to their actions and to the world around them, appropriate it and transform it, recognizes that language has a varied and complex function. It reveals how the various forms of cognition and/or social intelligence formed in and by language are linked to the possibles and overlap with them in constructing communities of actors. Drawing on the results of a study of the knowledge produced about waste by actors fighting a waste-incineration project, the paper demonstrates how this methodology works.
Sociology, Cognition, and Language: A Methodology of Observation - 2011.
4
This paper proposes a methodology for observing linguistic forms of cognition aimed at resolving the sociological and epistemological problems raised by the multiplicity of analytical perspectives on the relationship between thought and reality, and the unequal role assigned to language in activities entered into by social actors that produce signification. Inspired by the work of Ferry (1991, 2004), this methodology, through the hypothesis of language grammars that actors activate to give meaning to their actions and to the world around them, appropriate it and transform it, recognizes that language has a varied and complex function. It reveals how the various forms of cognition and/or social intelligence formed in and by language are linked to the possibles and overlap with them in constructing communities of actors. Drawing on the results of a study of the knowledge produced about waste by actors fighting a waste-incineration project, the paper demonstrates how this methodology works.
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