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(1994) Living doubt, Dordrecht, Springer.
A survey of the use and usefulness of Peirce in linguistics, in France in particular
Joëlle Réthoré
pp. 275-288
The work of C. Hagège (Hagège 1984) offers a fairly good assessment of the debates that are currently raging within the community of linguists in France. Those debates primarily concern the various linguistic epistemologies that are presently prevailing. One of the major issues in those debates, from which the name of C.S. Peirce is conspicuously absent, is that of the gap between the linguistics of "langue" and the linguistics of "parole." Hagège, who deplores that the debate is waged in terms of the opposition between these two linguistics and who points out that the interdependence of "langue" and "parole" argues against such separation, proposes the elaboration of prolegomena to a 'socio-operative" linguistic theory. He introduces the concept of "psychosocial utterer," i.e., a concept reflecting the activity of "parole" against the background of a system which, while adopted by society, must nevertheless be seen as being constantly and dialectically remodeled by the individual speakers that make up society. Such theory would provide a global description of "faits de langue" in a manner such that these be connected with "faits de parole" within one vast linguistic "territory."
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8252-0_25
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Réthoré, J. (1994)., A survey of the use and usefulness of Peirce in linguistics, in France in particular, in G. Debrock & M. Hulswit (eds.), Living doubt, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 275-288.
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