Foucault and Chomsky on Grammar and Governmentality

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-301
Author(s):  
Conor Barry
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Noam Chomsky

Abstract This essay explores the use of the notions of grammar and governmentality in the work of Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky. The goal is to exhibit the contrast but also mutual influence of these thinkers. Chomsky places his own linguistic theory in what he calls a tradition of Cartesian linguistics. Foucault’s presents an archaeology of general grammar in the French Classical Era. Chomsky and Foucault equally posit principles of governmentality. Both differ in terms of what they think the study of language brings to our understanding of ethical and political freedom. Governmental structure and grammatical structure, for Foucault, are always conventional, rather than essential – merely expressions of power dynamics. For Chomsky, the innate and natural human universality implied by underlying structures, in contrast, intimates a path to freedom from governmental coercion and oppression.

scholarly journals EKSISTENSI MAJAS DALAM ALQUR'AN SEBAGAI KHAZANAH KEILMUAN ISLAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Moh. Muhtador Nawafi
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
High Expression ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Islamic Studies

Amin Alkhulli was mapping out the qur’anic studies into two big themes, dirasat ma hawl Alquran dan dirasat fi Alquran nafsih. From this classification could be seen that majaz as part of the second studies. Majaz was categorized by Alkhulli as part of the Qur’anic text grammatical structure. Making the qur’anic text as an object of the study, therefore the existence of majaz will give various discourses. The linguistic theory gave two perspectives on this, first stated that Alqur’an was not contended majaz, because majaz indicated to have the untruth content, whereas it was impossible for Alquran to give the improper information. Second, majaz was existed inside the qur’anic texts, because it was indicating the elegant and high expression of language. Here is the focus of this article, wherein besides of becoming part of the qur’anic text, majaz was also becoming Islamic studies discourses.  

The political rationalities of indebtedness: Control, discipline, sovereignty

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-468
Author(s):  
Jean François Bissonnette
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Common Core ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Important Phenomenon ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Character ◽  
Loan Contract

This article examines the political character of debt relations, focusing in particular on the increasingly important phenomenon of personal indebtedness. Following Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, it distinguishes between three forms of ‘rationality’ that explain the various power dynamics at play beneath the formal and seemingly voluntary loan contract. Debt first exemplifies the open-ended flows of power that circulate in the networked structures of the ‘societies of control’ described by Deleuze. Far from signaling the demise of the modern disciplines analyzed by Foucault, credit relations are, on the contrary, shown to depend on some of the normalizing procedures that constituted the common core of disciplinary institutions. Arguing for a synchronic approach to historical political rationalities, this article highlights the relationship between debt and sovereignty, showing the intrication of contemporary, financialized forms of capitalist exploitation and the state’s ancient pretension to exact from its citizens an infinite debt of existence. Debt thus combines the respective effects of control, discipline and sovereignty and constitutes as such a powerful technology for the governing of individuals and populations.

scholarly journals Goal of Language Acquisition is to Develop Communications Skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 49-50
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
Communications Skills

Volumes about language teaching and language acquisition have been coming out ever since Noam Chomsky had leveled at structural linguistic theory. Books have been written about the approaches and methods of teaching a language. But the Undenying fact is that those volumes have failed to suggest an obvious impact on the listener. Though we have traditional methods such as “Audio lingual method” and “situational language teaching method”, none has brought the desired result..

scholarly journals Some preliminaries to the study of traces in linguistics

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-187
Author(s):  
Javier Arias
Keyword(s):  
Programming Language ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Mathematical Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Matrix Product ◽  
Mathematical Structures ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Matrix Calculus ◽  
To Come

The present paper constitutes a brief advance of much longer and more detailed ongoing work on the concept of “trace” in contemporary linguistic theory, particularly in syntax. It is commonly believed that the idea was coined by Noam Chomsky. However, we already detect its use, with a very accurate value, in the early work of Zellig Harris on mathematical linguistics or, to be more precise, on mathematical structures of language. In its origins, rather than being an index responsible for marking the location occupied by a unit previous to its syntactic movement (which always takes the form of fronting ), the trace was the result of a matrix product between n-adic functions. Thus, in Harris the trace is primarily a concept anchored in matrix calculus, or, put it differently, an algebraic notion. Chomsky’s notion, on its turn, is closely related with the LISP programming language. This text seeks to provide a preliminary analysis of the conceptual complexity implied in the concept of trace, which linguists should become aware of, for otherwise they will be doomed to be entangled in misunderstandings unfruitful to our discipline for decades to come.

Michel Foucault and the Smart City: Power Dynamics Inherent in Contemporary Governing through Code

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 869-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Klauser ◽  
Till Paasche ◽  
Ola Söderström
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Power Dynamics

scholarly journals Кон Noam Chomsky et Michel Foucault, Sur la nature humaine: Comprendre le pouvoir interlude

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-292
Author(s):  
Jordančo Sekulovski ◽  
Lindita Ahmeti
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Noam Chomsky

Author(s): Jordančo Sekulovski | Јорданчо Секуловски Title (Macedonian): Кон Noam Chomsky et Michel Foucault, Sur la nature humaine: Comprendre le pouvoir interlude Title (Albanian): Për Noam Chomsky et Michel Foucault, Sur la nature humaine: Comprendre le pouvoir interlude Translated by (Macedonian to Albanian): Lindita Ahmeti Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 5, No 1 (Winter 2006) Publisher: Research Center in Gender Studies - Skopje and Euro-Balkan Institute Page Range: 291-292 Page Count: 2 Citation (Macedonian): Јорданчо Секуловски, „Кон Noam Chomsky et Michel Foucault, Sur la nature humaine: Comprendre le pouvoir interlude“, Идентитети: списание за политика, род и култура, т. 5, бр. 1 (зима 2006): 291-292. Citation (Albanian): Jordančo Sekulovski, „Për Noam Chomsky et Michel Foucault, Sur la nature humaine: Comprendre le pouvoir interlude“, përkthim nga Maqedonishtja Lindita Ahmeti, Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 5, No 1 (Winter 2006): 291-292.

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