TY - JOUR
TI - CHANGING THE PLAYING FIELD: A “SOCIAL TURN” IN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE?
AU - Pawelec, Andrzej
TI - CHANGING THE PLAYING FIELD: A “SOCIAL TURN” IN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE?
AB - 
	I would like to suggest that the cognitive perspective on language, developed for over half a century, has been challenged in an unparalleled manner by Daniel Dor (2015). He points out that competing schools of linguistics (formalists, functionalists, pragmaticists) all share Chomsky’s original assumption that linguistics is part of Cognitive Science and language is primarily a mental entity. Dor proposes to rethink the status quo in linguistics from an alternative starting point: language is a social communication technology for the instruction of imagination. I believe that this confrontation with mentalism in language study may lead, in time, to a paradigm shift. I also point out – in the context of Charles Taylor’s latest (2016) book – that Dor’s social perspective on language has its limitations too.
VL - 2017
IS - Volume 134, Issue 3
PY - 2017
SN - 1897-1059
C1 - 2083-4624
SP - 273
EP - 279
DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.17.019.7093
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/changing-the-playing-field-a-social-turn-in-the-study-of-language
KW - human linguistic capacity
KW - language as social technology
KW - instruction of imagination
KW - Daniel Dor
KW - Charles Taylor