Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language Normativity

This book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue of linguistic feeling , the subject’s metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the normative – lexical, syntactic, morphological, phonological… – dimensions of a definite language he or she is acquainted with. The volume’s twelve contributions aim to revisit a concept that, through a fluctuating terminology (“ Sprachgefühl,” “ sentiment de la langue ,” “linguistic intuitions,” etc.), had developed, since the late 18th century, wi