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| Résumé : | This paper focuses on the question how we may empirically investigate the relationship between articulations of self and politics in the public realm from a pragmatic perspective. It offers a reconsideration of linguistic pragmatics along pragmatist lines. It constitutes a response to key methodological problems associated with poststructuralist discourse theory. Such problems include questions regarding the negotiation of context and the relative fixation of meaning through reflexive language use and concrete interactions. Linguistic pragmatics is usually described as a field of inquiry that focuses on language from the point of view of its usage properties. As a perspective, it tends to focus on the reflexive, process-based and contextual aspects of the way language users inter-subjectively negotiate meaning. But we are also dealing with an approach to the articulation of subjectivity in the public realm. This second dimension of pragmatics is frequently overlooked. By going back to the pragmatist sources of pragmatics, Jan Zienkowski will argue in favour of a non-Cartesian mode of linguistic pragmatics that acknowledges decentralized accounts of language and subjectivity. He claims that such an approach is necessary if one is to understand the complex language games we engage in while we articulate a sense of self and politics in the public sphere through concrete language use. |
