This book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue oflinguistic feeling, the subject’s metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the normative – lexical, syntactic, morphological, phonological… – dimensions of a definite language he or she is acquainted with. The volume’s twelve contributions aim to revisit a concept that, through a fluctuating terminology (“Sprachgefühl,”“sentiment de la langue,” “linguistic intuitions,” etc.), had developed, since the late 18thcentury, within a variety of cultural contexts and research traditions, and whose theoretical,...
This book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue oflinguistic feeling, the subject’s metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the ...