Linguistic turns: chances lost and affordences regained
https://doi.org/10.31249/poln/2023.03.01
Abstract
The article interprets linguistic and other turns as great, large, smaller and very tiny switches to the use of the possibilities of pragmatic, structuralist and interpretive research programs (Lakatos), as well as theories and concepts gravitating to them. It notes early precedents are discussed, including the political comparative studies of E. Freeman and the Chicago School of Charles Merriam and Harold Lasswell. Then the paper considers the great «linguistic» turn of the middle of the last century, marked by the innovations of Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Austin. The next wave included the rise of the study of political discourses and concepts, the creation of typologies of speech acts and implicatures, the development of critical and structural functional linguistics and the emergence of social semiotics. Against this background, there is a degradation of the structuralist tradition through poststructuralism to current fashions of an art of pure play with arbitrary forms. The further advances embrace cognitive aspects of communication and interaction in politics, performatives, logonomic systems and rules, multimodal social semiosis, pragmatics and pragmasemantics. Finally, the article identifies effectiveness of innovations and discusses which of them have already been mastered, and which need further development.
Keywords
pragmatics,
linguistic turn,
speech acts,
modalities,
discourse analysis,
social semiotics,
logonomic system,
pragmasemantics
Supporting agencies: This research is supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant No 22-18-00591
About the Author
M. V. Ilyin
INION RAN; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University; HSE University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Mikhail Ilyin
Moscow; Kaliningrad
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