- Tytuł:
- Needing the other: the anatomy of the Mass Noun Thesis
- Autorzy:
- Brons, Lajos
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/437204.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2014
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie. Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii
- Tematy:
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othering
interpretation
philosophy of linguistics
philosophy of anthropology
folk-ontology
numeral classifiers
mass nouns
odróżnianie
interpretacja
filozofia lingwistyki
antropologia filozoficzna
ontologia potoczna / ludowa
numeryczne klasyfikatory
rzeczowniki zbiorcze - Opis:
- Othering is the construction and identification of the self or in-group and the other or out-group in mutual, unequal opposition by attributing relative inferiority and/or radical alienness to the other/out-group. Othering can be “crude” or “sophisticated”, the defining difference being that in the latter case othering depends on the interpretation of the other/out-group in terms that are applicable only to the self/in-group but that are unconsciously assumed to be universal. The Mass Noun Thesis, the idea that all nouns in certain languages are grammatically and folk-ontologically similar to mass nouns in English, is an example of such sophisticated othering. According to this Thesis, (a) count nouns refer to discrete objects and mass nouns to stuffs; (b) the other’s language has only mass nouns and thus no count nouns; and therefore, (c) the other’s folk-ontology is an ontology of mass stuffs only. There is much evidence, however, that folk-ontology is independent from language. This paper argues that the Mass Noun Thesis is a case of sophisticated othering rooted in a conflation of grammatical and ontological conceptions of mass and count nouns that is applicable to the language of the interpreter/self but not to the languages of the relevant others, and that othering in this case is driven by a need to create some radically alien other to support a scientific or philosophical theory.
- Źródło:
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ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal; 2014, 4, 1; 103-122
2083-6635
2084-1043 - Pojawia się w:
- ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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