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Widening the Context: Towards a Critical Sociology of Linguistics

Summary/Abstract: The paper argues that modern linguistics, despite having developed its own critical and reflexive branches such as the critical discourse analysis (CDA), has not been able to apply a critical perspective towards its own field yet. While the contextual character of its key notions (e.g. meaning or text structures) has been already widely accepted, the contextual nature of linguistics itself with all its tools has not been fully recognized. The paper argues that linguistics, including contemporary schools of discourse analysis, may be seen as strongly entangled in power relations. Several discourse analytical concepts are deconstructed by means of demonstrating their potential role in power structures reproduction. The latter may take shape of introducing or perpetuating textual hierarchies in academia and other social fields. The notions put under critical scrutiny context itself (social nature of which is not yet fully recognized) as well as textuality and its criteria (coherence, language competences, emotions, politicization, meta-discourse and reflexivity).

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