Je traite du rôle de la traductibilité dans justification philosophique. présente et défends d’abord conception que Thomas Reid se fait peuvent jouer les faits relatifs à linguistique comparative Il estime le sens commun offre une forme fiable, quoique révocable. Pourtant, nous ne pouvons pas savoir, manière introspective, lesquels nos jugements relèvent commun. Les étant universels, il soutien...

Over the last few decades, the anthropological study of linguistic structures, genres, and activities in private and public settings has redefined the goals and boundaries of what ‘linguistics’ means for the social sciences and anthropology in particular. The ‘linguists’ in today’s anthropology departments – or ‘linguistic anthropologists’ as they are known in the United States and Canada – are...

Our times are often referred to as the ‘new world order’ with its ‘new economy’. What this means is that capitalism has been restructured on a global scale, and people of widely different cultural and linguistic backgrounds have been thrown into contact more than ever before. Cultural and linguistic contact may occur in the flows of information and mass media, as well as in the flows of actual ...

Experimental research during the last few decades has provided evidence that language is embedded in a mosaic of cognitive functions. An account of how language interfaces with memory, perception, action and control is no longer beyond the scope of linguistics, and can now be seen as part of an explanation of linguistic structure itself. However, although our view of language has changed, lingu...

I am not an expert on language disorders. As a relative outsider at the meeting that this volume is based upon, I was impressed by two general conclusions. First, I was impressed by the extreme specificity that is now possible in the descriptions of both genotypes and phenotypes for a number of different developmental disorders that affect language. Second, I was impressed by the gulf that lies...

The purpose of this chapter is to describe some similarities, as well as differences, between theoretical proposals emanating from the tradition of phenomenology and the currently popular approach to language and cognition known as cognitive linguistics (hence CL). This is a rather demanding and potentially controversial topic. For one thing, neither CL nor phenomenology constitute monolithic t...