Deconstructivism, postmodernism and their offspring: disorders of our time

IF 0.1 Q4 LINGUISTICS Treballs de Sociolinguistica Catalana Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI:10.1515/soci-2022-0004
John Edwards
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Abstract Our interest should always be aroused when scholars reject the testable approaches that have underwritten scientific development since the seventeenth century. Academic excursions in the arts and humanities need not adhere to scientific benchmarks, of course, and discussions relevant to science that are presented there need not always be subject to rigorous examination. When investigations move into social-science territory, however, more focused attention is called for. Since the scholars discussed in this paper clearly think of themselves as social scientists, it is quite legitimate to subject their investigations to scientific scrutiny and logical analysis. This article briefly describes contemporary investigations and research paradigms characterized by unnecessary neologisms, flatulent jargon, fuzzy thinking, and unconvincing arguments about the discovery of new territory in well-ploughed ground.
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解构主义、后现代主义及其后代:我们时代的紊乱
当学者们拒绝17世纪以来支撑科学发展的可检验方法时,我们的兴趣总是会被激发起来。当然,艺术和人文学科的学术考察不需要遵循科学基准,与科学相关的讨论也不需要总是受到严格的审查。然而,当调查进入社会科学领域时,需要更多的关注。由于本文中讨论的学者清楚地认为自己是社会科学家,因此将他们的调查置于科学审查和逻辑分析之下是相当合理的。本文简要描述了当代的调查和研究范式,其特点是不必要的新词,浮夸的术语,模糊的思维,以及在肥沃的土地上发现新领域的缺乏说服力的论点。
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