Component And
Perspective in Pragmatics
The component view is
essentially based on a “modular” conception of the human mind. In this
conceptions (which remains quiet popular among today’s cognitive scientist and
computer-oriented psychologists), the human faculties are thought of as
independent but cooperating units. In contrast, a “perspective” view of human
language activity, as the name indicates, ‘perspectivizes’ focuses on that
activity in its various aspects. Thus, a pragmatic perspective will focus on
the social factors that make a certain language use more or less acceptable, in
contrast to other, perhaps abstractly equivalent, but pragmatically radically
different (because mostly unaceptable) uses. Theoretically speaking, a Black
inner –citydialect of English may be just good as any other English dialect,
but in pragmatic perspective, such a statement make little sense: one simoly
cannot do the same things with Black as with Standard English in mosst societal
surrounding. Here, the “ inner city” (or the ‘urban’ environment, as it is now
somewhat euphemistically called) is the exception that confirms the rule; in
order to pursue any sort of career in ‘mainstream’ society, knowledge, and use
of standard language is de rigueur.[1]
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