O. Radchenko, R. Alikaev
LINGUISTS’ PROFESSIONAL WORLDVIEW IN THE LIGHT OF P. BOURDIEU’S CONCEPT
Abstract. The article is devoted to the linguistic views of the famous French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) and their significance for modern ideas concerning linguists’ professional picture of the world. The authors analyze P. Bourdieu’s publications based on the relevance of those factors that influence linguists’ professional activity, its effectiveness, a researcher’s image formation, etc. Particular attention is paid to ten theses reflected in the French thinker’s various monographs that are of specific value for the modern view of a linguist’s status, including the thesis of collective belief, struggle in the space of doxa, presumed independence of science, strategy of false rupture, competition in scientific research and its negative impact on the quality of these studies, duality of the phenomenon of scientific paradigm and a critical perception of this concept, symbolic capital of academic degrees, reproduction of the universe of belief, and a very specific character of the scientific habitus. Despite the fact that P. Bourdieu formulated these ideas in relation to the current situation in the research and academic environment of the social sciences, their importance for understanding the processes that determine the formation of a linguist’s professional worldview can hardly be overestimated. An additional argument in favor of the eurychoric characteristic of scientific discourse is Bourdieu’s keen interest in the problems of language, expressed, among other things, in his critical remarks on N. Chomsky’s concept.
Keywords: Pierre Bourdieu, professional picture of the world, scientific discourse, linguistics.