Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language Normativity: Theoretical, Epistemological, and Historical Perspectives on Linguistic Feeling [Hardcover]

This book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue of linguistic feeling, the subjects metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the normative  lexical, syntactic, morphological, phonological&  dimensions of a definite language he or she is acquainted with. The volumes twelve contributions aim to revisit a concept that, through a fluctuating terminology (Sprachgef?hl, sentiment de la langue, linguistic intuitions, etc.), had developed, since the late 18^th century, within a variety of cultural contexts and research traditions, and whose theoretical, epistemological, and historical ins and outs had not been systematically explored so far. Beginning with a long opening chapter, the book consists of two parts, one tracing the multifaceted approaches to linguistic feeling from Herder to Wittgenstein, and one offering a representative overview of the debates about the issue at stake in current linguistics and philosophy, while addressing the question of the place of metacognition, normativity, and affectivity in language processes.

1. Introduction.- Part I Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Linguistic Feeling from Herder to Wittgenstein.- 2. What the Germans Call Sprachgef?hl. Sprachgef?hl in Early German Linguistics. Selected Examples of Ways of Understanding.- 3. Assent, Sentiment and Linguistic Feeling in Jac. van Ginnekens Psycholinguistics.- 4. On the Normative Side of Saussures Linguistic Feeling.- 5. Sapir's Form-Feeling and its Historical Context.- 6. Edward Sapir: Form-Feeling in Language, Culture, and Poetry.- 7. Meaning-Blindness, and Linguistic Feeling: Wittgenstein on How We Experience Meaning.- Part II Current Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Linguistic Feeling.- 8. Intuitions in Linguistics: A Blessing or a Curse?.- 9. The Good, the Bad, and the Yucky: Valenced LlÓd