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Bang, Jorgen C. and Jorgen Døør. 1979. Language, theory and conditions for production. In Mey, Jacob L., ed. Pragmalinguistics, theory and practice. Mouton. pp. 21–50.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

On the background of a Marxist political philosophy and philosophy of science, the authors make a critical analysis of some dominant linguistic and sociolinguistic theories. They discuss J.Lyons' (1968: 'Introduction to theoretical linguistics'), J.Habermas' 'universal pragmatics', the sociolinguistic theories of Basil Bernstein, and the investigation undertaken by K.Ehlich, J.Rehbein (1972: 'Zur Konstitution pragmatischer Einheiten in einer Institution'). Finally the authors develop an alternative conception of research as well as a different concept of language. They propose to study communicative competence in conflict-situations as a way of doing pragmatics.