О комбинаторике языка, политики и идентичности

Abstract

The article discusses the conceptual ways of interaction of cognitive structures reflecting the diverse forms of co-presence of the phenomena of language, identity and politics in their peculiar combinatorics – variants of compatibility in both ontological and epistemological senses. The types of conjugation of linguistic functioning (communicative practices and situations, individual and group behavior) with relations about identity and with political dimensions that arise on this basis, form a complex with a multilateral turnover of roles. Analytical reflections in this area, understandably, also form a fragmented and even polarized picture. On one flank, such conjugation is interpreted in the spirit of isomorphism (in the logic of mutual substitution and unambiguous mapping), in the form of a synthesis, which is based on a certain general ascriptive nature, or essentialist principles of understanding. Identity is set even before identification is attempted, and language is present as an attribute, that is, inseparable. The diametrical position lies in the divergence of language and identity, since the abstract vision of “language” as a system does not at all presuppose a conscious unity of the participants in communication and the carriers of verbal behavior. In the “middle” zone, there is a wide range of judgments regarding the fact that language and identity can interact at the level of modi (but not attributes). Linguistic subjectivity reflects both the motivation for mutual understanding (communicative function) and the need for identification. This leads to logical consequences – languages and identity touch in the plane of the symbolic, and political influence can occur both in terms of traditionally understood language policy, and language politics. The article is distinguished by significantly less institutionalization, the absence of “hard” formal procedural grounds and decisions. Semantic properties in this case suggest a much wider agent composition, and multilevel structures (macro-, meso- and microscales). The expediency of analytical development of this type of politics is associated with the possibility of flexible response to the correlation of language and politics in their situational dynamics, including at the “grassroots” level.