Coulter2009

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Coulter2009
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Jeff Coulter
Title Rule-following, rule-governance and rule-accord: Reflections on rules after Rawls
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Tag(s) EMCA, Sociology, Ethnomethodology, Wittgenstein, Language, Rules, Interpretation, Rawls
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Year 2009
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Journal Journal of Classical Sociology
Volume 9
Number 4
Pages 389–403
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DOI 10.1177/1468795X09344449
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Abstract

In this discussion, I describe my introduction to Rawls’ famous paper on rules and situate this in a broader intellectual context. I then attempt to locate its significance within developments in linguistics (especially in speech-act analysis) and also in ethnomethodology. My main idea is that Rawls’ concept of a ‘constitutive rule’ is in deep harmony with many of Wittgenstein’s insights into the same thematic.

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