So language. Very prescribe. Wow.

Autores

  • Shane Nicholas Glackin Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47456/sofia.v8i1.23778

Resumo

The philosophical dispute about linguistic normativity is one battlefield in a larger war over the nature of language as an object of scientific study. For those influenced by Wittgenstein, language involves following — or failing to follow — public, prescriptive rules; for Chomsky and his followers, language is a property of individual minds and brains, and the grammatical judgements of any mature individual speaker — her competence — cannot be, in any linguistic sense, “wrong”. As I argue here, the recent “doge meme” internet fad provides surprising evidence for the prescriptivist view. Normative attitudes towards linguistic practices are a ubiquitous feature of those practices, and there is no principled basis on which to regard them as non-linguistic.

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Publicado

05-09-2019

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Dossiê Filosofia da Mente e da Linguagem

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GLACKIN, Shane Nicholas. So language. Very prescribe. Wow. Sofia, Espírito Santo, Brasil, v. 8, n. 1, p. 108–123, 2019. DOI: 10.47456/sofia.v8i1.23778. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufes.br/sofia/article/view/23778. Acesso em: 23 abr. 2026.