De l’indissociabilité du langagier et du social [On the inseparability of the linguistic and the social]

Authors

  • Bernard Lahire ENS-LSH, Université de Lyon Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v3i2.149

Keywords:

language habits, langue-games, social forms of life, dispositions, embodimen, perception categories, power

Abstract

The institutional divide between sociology (and, more generally, all so-called social sciences: anthropology, history, political science, economics, etc.) on the one hand, and linguistics (and more broadly all sciences of symbolic production: semiotics, discourse analysis, aesthetical theories, literary theories, etc.) on the other hand, constitutes a major hurdle for the understanding of so-called social phenomena and of so-called linguistic phenomena (symbolic, aesthetic, discursive, etc.). Scholars in social sciences are indeed used to describing and analysing the reality of practices or behaviours, of strategies and individual or collective social trajectories, of institutions and groups, of forms of power and types of domination, or of configurations of interdependence relationships (from the more ‘micro’ to the more ‘macro’) while ignoring almost totally the linguistic dimension of these various aspects of social reality. Looking back to a set of diverse prior sociological works – on academic failure in primary school, on domestic writing practices, on processes of embodiment of mental and behavioural habits, on categories used to perceive and represent reality, or on symbolic power – the author endeavours to show what the analysis of social facts may gain, in complexity and accuracy, from the consideration of the language question.

Author Biography

  • Bernard Lahire, ENS-LSH, Université de Lyon
    Professeur de Sociologie à l'Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Directeur du Groupe de Recherche sur la Socialisation (UMR 5040 CNRS)

Published

2010-02-01

How to Cite

Lahire, B. (2010). De l’indissociabilité du langagier et du social [On the inseparability of the linguistic and the social]. Sociolinguistic Studies, 3(2), 149-175. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v3i2.149