Abstract

GIRALDO CHAVARRIAGA, John Alexander. The Institutionalization of Power through Language in the General Theory of Institutional Acts. Prax. filos. [online]. 2011, n.33, pp.107-134. ISSN 0120-4688.

With his work The Construction of Social Reality, the American philosopher John Rogers Searle has placed the philosophical analysis of language in the most important position of sociological studies. His proposal is focused on the structures and the social functions that determine the creation and the maintenance of institutional acts. This article is intended to show how language is a constituent of these acts, taking into account the following questions: How does a community form a society that surpasses the individuality of its members? How do people guarantee the stability of society? How could the different ways of social interactions be explained? What means do we use to make this interaction work effectively? The starting point of this article is the acknowledgement of the social subjection in the social interaction of daily life, followed by a short presentation of the general theory of the institutional acts to be assessed, and finally an analysis of the function of language in the creation of these facts and the origins of institutional strength.

Keywords : social reality; institutional acts; structure; status; language; strength.

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