TY - JOUR

T1 - Introspection in language and linguistics

AU - Timofeeva, Mariya K.

PY - 2015/1/1

Y1 - 2015/1/1

N2 - Different lines of applying or treating introspection in the following limited area are considered: knowledge and usage of language, its investigating in linguistics. Two main positions are advocated: inevitability and significance of introspection for the indicated area; importance of linguistic study of introspection as a constituent of language (regardless of whether introspection is deemed a reliable scientific method or not). In the indicated area, linguists and language users often deal with introspection as a natural capacity, and do not explicitly introduce it among postulates, assumptions, methods, or language data sources. Therefore, the paper considers not only explicit, but also implicit applications of introspection. Linguistics does not formulate any clear differences between introspection and «linguistic feeling», «language feeling», «self-observation», «linguistic intuition». This fact is also taken into account.

AB - Different lines of applying or treating introspection in the following limited area are considered: knowledge and usage of language, its investigating in linguistics. Two main positions are advocated: inevitability and significance of introspection for the indicated area; importance of linguistic study of introspection as a constituent of language (regardless of whether introspection is deemed a reliable scientific method or not). In the indicated area, linguists and language users often deal with introspection as a natural capacity, and do not explicitly introduce it among postulates, assumptions, methods, or language data sources. Therefore, the paper considers not only explicit, but also implicit applications of introspection. Linguistics does not formulate any clear differences between introspection and «linguistic feeling», «language feeling», «self-observation», «linguistic intuition». This fact is also taken into account.

KW - Introspection

KW - Introspection as an object of linguistics

KW - Introspective linguistic data

KW - Language feeling

KW - Linguistic feeling

KW - Linguistic intuition

KW - Linguistic methods

KW - Objects of linguistic introspection

KW - Psychologism in linguistics

KW - Self-observation

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960895788&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84960895788

VL - 2015

SP - 33

EP - 53

JO - Voprosy Jazykoznanija

JF - Voprosy Jazykoznanija

SN - 0373-658X

IS - 6

ER -