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The main aim of our chapter is to offer a brief overview of selected turns in contemporary philosophy of language and the study of language, concentrating especially on the ‘formal’, ‘cognitive’ and ‘communicative’ turns. We discuss the most important turns in the philosophy of language (concentrating especially on Frege), next the cognitive turns associated with, on the one hand, Chomsky and the generative enterprise, and Cognitive Linguistics on the other, and we conclude with an overview of the communicative turn, and its more applied implications, including cognitive approach to language analysis, and communicative language teaching.
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According to Dummett (1993: 5) “analytical philosophy was born when the ‘linguistic turn' was taken”.
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See, for example, the chapters collected in Sawyer (2010).
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More precisely, this is the "second cognitive revolution", as the first one should be associated with the Cartesian tradition, cf. Chomsky (2002: 69). Cognitive Linguistics might be thus considered as contributing to the third wave of the cognitive revolution.
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Also cf. Wodak et al. (2011) for comments on the relationship between Hymes' notion of ‘communicative competence', Habermas' notion of ‘communicative action', and the work of Austin and Searle.
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Stalmaszczyk, P., Oleksy, W. (2014). Philosophical and Communicative Turns in the Study of Language. In: Szubko-Sitarek, W., Salski, Ł., Stalmaszczyk, P. (eds) Language Learning, Discourse and Communication. Second Language Learning and Teaching. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00419-8_16
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