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ultimately based on the analysts‟ voluntarism. Insofar, such analysis can well be described
as „crypto-normative‟ (Habermas 1990: 276).
3
In the following paper, all quotations – as long as it is not stated differently – refer to
works of Habermas.
4
In How to do things with Words, Austin initially introduced constative and performative
utterances. While the former refer to objective true:false conditions of an utterance, e.g.
„This table is round‟, the latter can be happy:unhappy as they try to achieve something, e.g.
„I herewith baptize this child‟. Later, Austin realised that constative utterances too have
performative elements and dismissed this separation. Instead, he introduced a new one:
utterances now consist of locutionary (the semantic representation of X), illocutionary
(one does X by saying Y) and perlocutionary aspects (the effect on the hearer).
5
At a first glance, this seems to restrict the Habermasian model to a small amount of
standard utterances. However, even if symbolic/nonverbal utterances lack the
propositional aspect of a speech act, they, nevertheless, are often criticisable too as they
simply call to mind the propositional content of the presupposed norm (1976b: 37).
6
Thus, Habermas accuses poststructuralism of a performative contradiction. If every use of
language is indeed only one more power-contaminated action, why should we believe in
their particular attempt to enlighten us about the ideological character of modernity? In
other words: „I hereby tell you, that truth does not exist‟ is a contradiction in itself as the
speaker raises the claim of truth in his utterance while he/she simultaneously rejects the
idea itself (Habermas 1990).
7
Therefore, not only academics conduct communicative action. Besides the fact that
especially this group contest their communication symbolically, e.g. via sentence-
construction or the use of foreign words, formal pragmatics is concerned with the practical
knowledge, „the intuitive knowledge of competent subjects‟ (emphasis added).
8
Due to his focus on Jean Piaget‟s theory of cognitive development (Piaget 1970, 1977),
Habermas initially perceived individual learning processes as running ahead of social
learning, as „peacemakers of social evolution‟ (1975: 162). Such a restriction to the
individual dimension does not seem beneficial to describe social phenomenon (Eder 1988:
321-387). Since then, Habermas himself has moved away from his initial position and now
explicitly outlines intersubjectivity as the medium of development and learning (1995,
2003). For a detailed review of this change, cf. Strydom (1992).
9
For much more detailed theories of social learning within the Habermasian frame, cf.
Miller 1986, 2002; Eder 1988: 285-387, 1999).
10
For the use of fallacies in the DHA cf. Reisigl and Wodak (2009). However, it is important
to note that implementing fallacies might help evaluating truth claims but cannot clarify
what is right or wrong. In other words: fallacies can serve as a tool in CDA in order to
reveal how certain claims distort communication but they cannot define distortion itself.
Thus, even the fruitful implementation of fallacies does not answer why fallacies should
actually be criticised.
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