Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2024

It goes with(out) saying: The disruptive habit of speaking

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Even though habits are mostly considered as manifesting themselves at the bodily level, in gestures and behaviours, in this chapter, it is argued that a process which paradigmatically allows habits to make themselves concrete is language: speaking is a habit—not only in an empirical sense but in a structural sense. To unfold this, the manner in which speech embodies the characteristics of habits must be specified. In this chapter, the following three aspects are underlined: first, as a habit, speech is paradoxically both anonymous and singular; second, insofar as speaking is a habit, the speaker cannot be the sovereign of her own speech but is rather subordinated to the language she inherits; third, as a habit, speaking provokes the idiosyncratic transformations of this heritage, thereby making its future possible.
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hal-04863832 , version 1 (04-01-2025)

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Dorothée Legrand. It goes with(out) saying: The disruptive habit of speaking. Line Ryberg Ingerslev and Karl Mertens. Phenomenology of Broken Habits: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Habitual Action, Routledge, pp.223-240, 2024, 9781032365275. ⟨hal-04863832⟩
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