Language structure determines conduct, making motives linguistically interpreted needs.
Evidence
In so doing, it presupposes a theory of ordinary language having two tasks: first, to account for the intersubjective validity of symbols and the linguistic mediation of interactions on the basis of reciprocal recognition; second, to render comprehensible socializationthat is, initiation into the grammar of language gamesas a process of individuation. Since, according to this theory, the structure of language determines likewise both language and conduct, motives of action are also comprehended as linguistically interpreted needs. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 672
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines what Habermas means by a theory of ordinary language and by socialization as individuation.
- DEEPTHINKING: The claim that language structure determines both language and conduct, converting motives into symbolically mediated intentions, is a dense reconstitution of psychoanalytic metapsychology worth sitting with.
- XREF: connects to: Language’s defining power enforces social structures by silencing alternatives — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 609; Taken-for-granted language reproduces value hierarchies and centric thinking — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 124; Functional language serves to coordinate and subordinate society — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 404 (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Language’s defining power enforces social structures by silencing alternatives — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 609; Taken-for-granted language reproduces value hierarchies and centric thinking — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 124; Functional language serves to coordinate and subordinate society — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 404 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Motives of action are linguistically interpreted needs, not unconscious impulses.
#corroborates(0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2682