Organon F
Volume 26, August 2019, Issue 4, Pages 572–596
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
Do We Share a Language? Communitarism and Its Challenges
Matej Drobňák
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26402
The idea that natural languages are shared by speakers within linguistic communities is often taken for granted. Several philosophers even take the notion of shared language as fundamental and that allows them to use it in further explanations. However, to justify the claim that speakers share a language, it should be possible to demarcate the shared language somehow. In this paper, I discuss: A) the explanatory role which the notion of shared language can play, and B) a strategy for demarcating shared languages from within the linguistic production of speakers. The aim of this paper is to show that the indeterminate nature of meaning in natural languages problematizes the intuitive idea of natural languages as shared.
Communitarism; indeterminacy of meaning; metasemantics; pragmatics; shared language.
Author
Matej Drobňák
Affiliation
University of Hradec Králové
Address
Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové, Rokitanského 62, 500 03 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Received
20 July 2018
Accepted
5 December 2018
Published online
14 March 2019
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Drobňák, M. (2019). Do We Share a Language? Communitarism and Its Challenges. Organon F, 26(4), 572–596. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26402
Chicago
Drobňák, Matej. 2019. "Do We Share a Language? Communitarism and Its Challenges." Organon F 26 (4): 572–596. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26402
Harvard
Drobňák, M. (2019). Do We Share a Language? Communitarism and Its Challenges. Organon F, 26(4), pp. 572–596. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26402
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