Social constructionism and linguistic practices

This paper discusses some issues touched upon by Elena O. Trufanova in her research on the problem of subject and the status of knowledge in the social constructionism. I focus on the views of Rom Harré and Peter Mühlhäusler who describe the “inner Self” as a linguistic construction and, on the whole, oppose the standpoint of linguistic universalism. In this respect, I also consider the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis assuming that addressing the problem of “the Self” in its linguistic dimension depends to a large extent on the development of interdisciplinary cognitive studies.