ABSTRACT
Linguistic reflexivity is language about language. Integrational linguistics offers a view of language that resonates with the experience of situated communicating participants. In particular, it recognizes the perspective of the first person, and it pays specific attention to the temporality of linguistic communication. Reflexivity has been identified as a methodological issue in relation to the research enterprise, by sociolinguistics and, more broadly, the social sciences, but, in general, linguistics seems to be somewhat resistant to its investigation. Linguists and teachers have to develop a terminology to describe the language, and these terms are obviously metalinguistic, but the linguistic phenomena thereby described presumably already exist and are available to the language users, even though they may not be conscious of them. Integrational linguistics is interested in studying the things communicating participants need to do, the integrational tasks they have to complete to achieve interactional aims in given situations “envisaged as a semiologically focused hermeneutics.
