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Guillem Calaforra

La cosificació de les normes d'ús lingüístic. Aspectes sociològics d'un discurs distorsionat

The subject matter of sociolinguistics are the rules or patterns of the functioning of language. But rules and transgressions are complementary facts, and sociolinguists must study both conventional and intentional language use (that is, traditional and meaningful social actions). When sociolinguistics deals exclusively with norms, but ne t with transgressions, sociolinguists reify a socially constructed reality. By applying the concept of reification, we consider that sociolinguists confuse rules, laws and regularities; therefore, more interpretation is needed to complement explanation, and it seems that sociolinguistics needs more «research programmes» studying the importance of individua…

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Ús lingüístic, legitimitat i discurs: consideracions weberianes

The “psychosociological turn” of the sociology of language entails a new attention paid to the role of agency in language use. But this new approach can be coherent and complete only by taking into account the historical and political circumstances of language use, as well as the whole set of factors determining the processes by which social meanings are created and distributed. On the basis of the Weberian concept of legitimacy, this paper tries to outline the characteristics of the relationship between social discourses and the patterns of language use. It ends with some reflections on the utility and the difficulties of using critical discourse analysis in order to understand the symboli…

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Boulez entre nosaltres (i ja era hora). Ressenya del llibre "Per voluntat i per atzar. Entrevistes amb Célestin Deliège", de Pierre Boulez

En el número 49 de la revista L'Espill trobaràs un dossier monogràfic sobre "Un temps de canvis?", amb contribucions de Manuel Sanchis Marco, Víctor Maceda i Jordi Muñoz. A més, articles de Xavier Farré, Adam Zagajewski, Yves Charles Zarka, Snježana Kodrić, Steven Forti, Juan Antonio Ríos Carratalà, Alícia Villar Aguilés, Sandra Obiol Francés, Antoni Furió i Diego i Francesc Foguet i Boreu, així com documents amb la correspondència entre Joan Fuster i Ramón Piñeiro, una conversa amb Rafael Chirbes i una entrevista amb Andreu Rossinyol.

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