Language and the Social Construction of Reality  

Oleh:

St. Clair, Robert N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 4 no. 2 (1982), page 221-236.
Fulltext: 04_02_St. Clair.pdf (786.45KB)

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The role of language in society is investigated from the theoretical framework of the sociology of knowledge. It is demonstrated that people may use the same forms of speech, but they do not share the same linguistic experiences in life. This dramaturgical model explicates how language functions socially. People create their own roles as playwrights, and they perform them as actors. By watching their own behavior, they also become critics and make up their own audience. They may have performance failure (stage fright) or be out of character, but they are always a part of the social scene they have help to create. What is significant about this symbolic interactionist approach is that it demonstrates the limitations of the positivistic formal models in dealing with social interaction.

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