Abstract

In this paper I call into question the referential paradigm, drawing on the conceptual framework developed by contemporary Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics. I call for the urgent problematization of the so-called referential metaphysics while arguing that constructs such as entextualization and indexicality can shake the strong representational tradition in the field of language studies – a tradition sustained by an infectious modernist linguistic ideology and authoritarian and monist models of reality. The latter have been losing ground, as an explanatory apparatus, amidst the intense mobility and complexity of globalization processes which require new theoretical-analytical tools. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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  • A FOUR-STAGE COURSE OF ACTIONThe inadequacy of the so-called modernist linguistic framework for the task of meaning making within social interactions in times of mobility and globalization was a recurring theme in the theorizations drawn out of the seminars of the School for Advanced Studies

  • In this paper I call into question the referential paradigm, drawing on the conceptual framework developed by contemporary Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics

  • There is a certain urgency in calling into question the dogma of referential metaphysics according to which language is a tool used to represent the facts of the social and natural worlds, presumed to be entities – either internal

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A FOUR-STAGE COURSE OF ACTION

The inadequacy of the so-called modernist linguistic framework for the task of meaning making within social interactions in times of mobility and globalization was a recurring theme in the theorizations drawn out of the seminars of the School for Advanced Studies. The recurrence of such questioning during the event, and the acknowledgment of its relevance in present-day debates within a variety of fields of study, pushed me towards the considerations in this essay. The correlation between this course of action and a modernist linguistic ideology is the nexus I propose to establish

IN SUPPORT OF ALTERNATIVE KNOWLEDGE REGIMES
THE REFERENTIAL ANCHORAGE
THE TURN OF THE REFERENTIAL SCREW
IN SUPPORT OF AN ALTERNATIVE LINGUISTIC IDEOLOGY
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