Abstract

ALEGRE, Javier. Pragmatic Force and Language’s Institutional Character: Between Communicative Action and Symbolic Power. Diánoia [online]. 2017, vol.62, n.79, pp.3-28. ISSN 0185-2450.

By using as a background Wittgenstein’s and Austin’s reflections about language, the aim of this paper is to compare the way Habermas and Bourdieu rebuild that original pragmatic perspective. I am specifically interested in analyzing how the institutional character of language is retrieved by Habermas’s communicative action theory and Bourdieu’s sociological pragmatic, in order to show and to confront two different and irreducible ways of appropriating the heuristic power of the pragmatic turn started by Wittgenstein and Austin in the middle of the twentieth century.

Keywords : linguistic pragmatism; Habermas; Bourdieu; rationality; symbolic violence.

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