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<p>The paper explores some of the commonalities between language and practical activity. It focuses on the normativity involved and presents an account on two different kinds of normativity which constrain both languaging and practical doings in general. In this connection, the paper engages with the first-order—second-order distinction central to the Distributed Language Perspective and shows that there is a way for proponents of this perspective to come to terms with linguistic normativity without presupposing a dualism between, on the one hand, first-order articulations and, on the other, the second-order normative constrains that condition them.</p>
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The paper explores some of the commonalities between language and practical activity. It focuses on the normativity involved and presents an account on two different kinds of normativity which constrain both languaging and practical doings in general. In this connection, the paper engages with the first-order—second-order distinction central to the Distributed Language Perspective and shows that there is a way for proponents of this perspective to come to terms with linguistic normativity without presupposing a dualism between, on the one hand, first-order articulations and, on the other, the second-order normative constrains that condition them.

Normativity in Languaging and Practical Activity

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The paper explores some of the commonalities between language and practical activity. It focuses on the normativity involved and presents an account on two...

Normativity in Languaging and Practical Activity

Published Online: Jul 05, 2024

Page range: 1 - 7

Received: Nov 15, 2023

Accepted: Jan 02, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2024-0006

Keywords
Languaging, practices, normativity, Wittgenstein, Distributed Language

© 2024 Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Normativity in Languaging and Practical Activity

Published Online: Jul 05, 2024

Page range: 1 - 7

Received: Nov 15, 2023

Accepted: Jan 02, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2024-0006

KeywordsLanguaging, practices, normativity, Wittgenstein, Distributed Language

© 2024 Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Languaging, practices, normativity, Wittgenstein, Distributed Language