Russian Journal of Education and Psychology (Dec 2020)
LANGUAGE REPRESENTATIONS AS A FORM OF SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE
Abstract
The article is devoted to clarifying the nature of language knowledge in the system of social knowledge. Social representation is a complex cognitive structure. As a social form of knowledge of social representation is used for the interpretation of social reality. It allows us to understand and analyze the regulatory effect of the social system on the cognitive domain of a social group, an individual. The author aims to clarify the main characteristics of language representation and its structure as a form of social knowledge. The relevance of the article is determined, on the one hand, by the increased interest in cognitive developments that can reveal complex mechanisms of categorization of human knowledge. On the other hand, we are talking about the author’s attempt to apply the psychological concept of representation to clarify the psychosocial characteristics of language knowledge, in particular, ideas about the language norm as a form of social knowledge. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the correlation of the socio-psychological and linguistic foundations of linguistic representation. The theoretical and practical significance of the work consists in a comprehensive analysis of the interaction of the social environment, the functional system of the language with its internal structure by the example of studying the representation of the language norm of the Belgian and Quebec versions of the French language. The material for the study was the linguistic representations of native speakers about the language norm of the territorial variants of the French language of Belgium and Quebec, presented in Belgian and French grammars of the XVI–XIX centuries, Quebec lexicographic works of the XVIII – early XX centuries, in historical evidence about the language. The results of the study. The tools of social psychology, the main unit of which is social representation, allowed us to significantly expand the idea of the norm as a complex cognitive structure, based not only on the scientific knowledge developed in society, but also on natural, experimental knowledge, which is characterized by an unlimited number of inferences, followers, which allows us to establish an unlimited number of connections between the observed objects. The combination of scientific and experimental knowledge, social and individual, determines the ambivalent, rational-evaluative, on the one hand, and the socio-individual nature of the norm, on the other. The language norm as one of the types of social norm is formed in the process of interaction of several social groups that determine their attitude, including identification, to the language (language form).
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