Il ruolo del linguaggio nella costruzione sociale della realtà post-moderna

Abstract

The role of language in the social construction of post-modern reality

Between representational systems of common usage, daily language and, nonetheless, that of various scientific communities, establishes the more powerful instrument with which the several configurations of reality we participate are constantly realized: different scenes within which embodying roles and charachters coherent (or not) with the interactive context in which we take part, a context made of codes, languages, highly specific symbols that concur to create a sense and a meaning to name the experiences that therefore are turned into objectivity. The language structure in itself carries out one reassuring function: at the base of the daily main routines the we find a continuous correspondence between our meanings and those of the others; it’s just during the daily routine that we share with others a common sense. In the process of reality social construction the individual surely comes to life with a certain social lean but he’s not directly a member of the society. He gradually takes part in it, through a step by step evolution in which the internalization of a common and shared language with the own belonging human community sets the first moment. At the same time, nowadays, we assist to a pluralism of languages due to the cohabitation, in the same urban context, of various cultures in interaction between them, and due to the mass media that invite us to give the right value to the differences and not to mystify the diversity.