PanLeo
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Post by PanLeo on Jul 23, 2017 21:22:00 GMT
Language is consisted of what Linguist/Semiotician Ferdinand De Saussare called the linguistic sign, the linguistic sign consists of the signifier and the signifed. The signifed consists of concepts. Concepts consist of both how things ought to be (ethical views for example) and how things are (Newtonian Mechanics for example). Therefore language is both descriptive and prescriptive.
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Post by general313 on Jul 23, 2017 23:05:37 GMT
Language is what humans use to communciate with each other. Any semantic properties that might be ascribed to language might be more properly ascribed to the thoughts, ideas, concepts, etc. that humans possess.
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Post by permutojoe on Jul 24, 2017 0:49:31 GMT
Language is what humans use to communciate with each other. Any semantic properties that might be ascribed to language might be more properly ascribed to the thoughts, ideas, concepts, etc. that humans possess. Correct. In fact, language probably originated as a means not for communication but for internal thought. |
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Post by PanLeo on Jul 24, 2017 10:36:39 GMT
Language is what humans use to communciate with each other. Any semantic properties that might be ascribed to language might be more properly ascribed to the thoughts, ideas, concepts, etc. that humans possess. So you are saying language consists only of signifiers? Do you have any source that says language is thought of that way? |
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Post by general313 on Jul 24, 2017 15:41:01 GMT
Language is what humans use to communciate with each other. Any semantic properties that might be ascribed to language might be more properly ascribed to the thoughts, ideas, concepts, etc. that humans possess. So you are saying language consists only of signifiers? Do you have any source that says language is thought of that way? Hmmm, I should think about this some more, but for now I'll say that I think language has a syntactic structure that is intrinsic to the language. The semantics are more of a reference, that reference is a component of the language but the concepts referred to are not contained in the language, as they exist outside of language. So to answer your first question, I'd say no because language consists of what you call signifiers and references to signifieds. As for sources, I have none at the moment. |
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