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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 21:16:56 +1000 (EST)
From: Ania Lian <ania-AT-lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu and structuralism


Can anyone help me. I am from a different world (language teacher) and
would like to ask whether anyone can help me to discredit the claim which
I am going to post below. I kind of feel that what the person argues in
this quote is not quite so as he would wish. I have the feeling that in
fact thekinds of ling organisations that we use are not self-referencing.
Maybe the kinds of body-references of Bourdieu's would help the matter
(organising things in refernce to body).

I am in teh process of writing PhD so if one would wish to help me in
dealing with this concept I would not use it as my own oppinion but would
simply copy teh reply directly to my work as a comment (footnoted) that
maybe things in fact are not the way the person in the quote suggests: so
the question is: do you agree and why yes/not
thanks
ania lian

       "For instance, as long as linguistic theory makes productive use of
terms  like empty category, bounding node, c-command, and so forth, as
long as these terms have no natural counterparts in other sciences, as as
long as using these terms leads to increased understanding of linguistic
phenomena, then there is no way to reduce grammar to general knowledge or
language acquisition to general learning;" (Gregg, 1996, :60)

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