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Linguistics of Saying, Presentation
Jesús Martínez del Castillo
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
1-4
Received:
15 December 2014
Accepted:
17 December 2014
Published:
10 January 2015
Abstract: Linguistics of Saying is a theory about language based on a particular conception of what to be a human being is. Human subjects are free and historical. The aim of linguistics of saying is thought and its means is the analysis of speech acts conceived of as acts of knowing. In this sense linguistics of saying is hermeneutics, both transcendental and empirical. As Humboldt would say, it is transcendental hermeneutics and empirical verification.
Abstract: Linguistics of Saying is a theory about language based on a particular conception of what to be a human being is. Human subjects are free and historical. The aim of linguistics of saying is thought and its means is the analysis of speech acts conceived of as acts of knowing. In this sense linguistics of saying is hermeneutics, both transcendental a...
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The Meaningful Intentional Purpose of the Individual Speaker
Jesús Martínez del Castillo
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
5-10
Received:
22 December 2014
Accepted:
27 December 2014
Published:
10 January 2015
Abstract: Linguistics of saying studies language in its birth. Language is the mental activity executed by speaking subjects. Linguistics of saying consists in analyzing speech acts as the result of an act of knowing. Speaking subjects speak because they have something to say; they say because they define themselves before the circumstance they are in; and this is possible because they are able to know. Speaking, then, is speaking, saying and knowing. In this sense there is a progressive determination. Knowing makes possible saying, and saying determines speaking, or, in other words: speaking involves saying and knowing, and saying involves knowing. The problem thus is to determine the linguistic intention of the individual speaker to say something in every speech act.
Abstract: Linguistics of saying studies language in its birth. Language is the mental activity executed by speaking subjects. Linguistics of saying consists in analyzing speech acts as the result of an act of knowing. Speaking subjects speak because they have something to say; they say because they define themselves before the circumstance they are in; and t...
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The Process of Abstraction in the Creation of Meanings
Jesús Martínez del Castillo
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
11-23
Received:
7 January 2015
Accepted:
8 January 2015
Published:
14 January 2015
Abstract: Linguistics of Saying is to be analyzed in the speech act conceived of as an act of knowing. The speaking, saying and knowing subject, based on contexts and the principles of congruency and confidence in the speech of other speakers, will create meanings and interpret the sense of utterances supplying the deficiencies of language by means of the intellective operations mentally executed in the act of speech. In the intellective operations you can see three steps or processes: first the starting point, intuition or aísthesis; second, the process of abstraction; and third, the inverse: the process of determination or fixing the construct created.
Abstract: Linguistics of Saying is to be analyzed in the speech act conceived of as an act of knowing. The speaking, saying and knowing subject, based on contexts and the principles of congruency and confidence in the speech of other speakers, will create meanings and interpret the sense of utterances supplying the deficiencies of language by means of the in...
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Fixing the Content Created in the Act of Knowing
Jesus Martinez del Castillo
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
24-30
Received:
12 January 2015
Accepted:
16 January 2015
Published:
27 January 2015
Abstract: The human subject in as much as he knows transforms the sensitive and concrete (the thing perceived) into abstract (an image of the thing perceived), the abstract into an idea (imaginative representation of the thing abstracted), and ideas into contents of conscience (meanings). The last step in the creation of meanings, something being executed in the speech act, consists in fixing the construct mentally created thus making it objectified meanings in the conscience of speakers. The interchange amongst the different steps in the creation of meaning manifests lógos, the state lived by speakers in their interior when speaking, created and developed in words and because of words.
Abstract: The human subject in as much as he knows transforms the sensitive and concrete (the thing perceived) into abstract (an image of the thing perceived), the abstract into an idea (imaginative representation of the thing abstracted), and ideas into contents of conscience (meanings). The last step in the creation of meanings, something being executed in...
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The Speech Act as an Act of Knowing
Jesus Martinez del Castillo
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
31-38
Received:
21 January 2015
Accepted:
22 January 2015
Published:
14 February 2015
Abstract: Language is nothing but human subjects in as much as they speak, say and know. Language is something coming from the inside of the speaking subject manifest in the meaningful intentional purpose of the individual speaker. A language, on the contrary, is something coming from the outside, from the speech community, something offered to the speaking subject from the tradition in the technique of speaking. The speech act is nothing by the development of an intuition by the subject transforming it in words of a language. It is both individual and social. Since human subjects are free and historical, the study of speech acts is hermeneutics, that is, interpreting speech acts with knowing and the human reality.
Abstract: Language is nothing but human subjects in as much as they speak, say and know. Language is something coming from the inside of the speaking subject manifest in the meaningful intentional purpose of the individual speaker. A language, on the contrary, is something coming from the outside, from the speech community, something offered to the speaking ...
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Determining the Degree of Reality of Language
Jesus Martinez del Castillo
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
39-49
Received:
2 February 2015
Accepted:
2 February 2015
Published:
14 February 2015
Abstract: Speakers live language, that is, they intuit, create, acquire, perform, speak and say, interpret, use, evaluate and, even, speak of language. The real language is the language lived by speakers. On the contrary linguists, who at the same time are speakers and linguists, study language as something manifesting of front of them. In order to study language it is necessary to determine the degree of reality of the thing called language as the reality lived and used by speakers.
Abstract: Speakers live language, that is, they intuit, create, acquire, perform, speak and say, interpret, use, evaluate and, even, speak of language. The real language is the language lived by speakers. On the contrary linguists, who at the same time are speakers and linguists, study language as something manifesting of front of them. In order to study lan...
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Meaning and Language
Jesus Martinez del Castillo
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
50-58
Received:
18 February 2015
Accepted:
23 February 2015
Published:
5 March 2015
Abstract: Meaning defines language because it is the internal function of language. At the same time, meaning does not exist unless in language and because of language. From the point of view of the speaking subject meaning is contents of conscience. From the point of view of a language, meaning is the objectification of knowledge in linguistic signs. And from the point of view of the individual speaking subject, meaning is the expressive intentional purpose to say something.
Abstract: Meaning defines language because it is the internal function of language. At the same time, meaning does not exist unless in language and because of language. From the point of view of the speaking subject meaning is contents of conscience. From the point of view of a language, meaning is the objectification of knowledge in linguistic signs. And fr...
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The Activity of Speaking
Jesus Martinez del Castillo
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
59-66
Received:
12 February 2015
Accepted:
15 February 2015
Published:
13 March 2015
Abstract: The most comprehensive manifestation of language can be seen in the activity of speaking. In itself the activity of speaking cannot be understood unless it is referred to the concepts of language and a language. Anything in language can be found in the activity of speaking. Because of this you can find what language is if you abstract from the innumerable manifestations of the activity of speaking.
Abstract: The most comprehensive manifestation of language can be seen in the activity of speaking. In itself the activity of speaking cannot be understood unless it is referred to the concepts of language and a language. Anything in language can be found in the activity of speaking. Because of this you can find what language is if you abstract from the innu...
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Meaning, What is It
Jesus Martinez del Castillo
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
67-76
Received:
12 March 2015
Accepted:
12 March 2015
Published:
18 March 2015
Abstract: Meaning as the original function of language is the arrangement of internal things on the part of the creative and historical individual subject who speaks a particular language. Meaning constitutes the series of contents making up the linguistic world human subjects can manage real things with. Real things are not described with meanings but merely represented and designated. Meanings represent the essence of things thus making them members of a category. In this sense, meaning is the base to create things in as much as they constitute entities. Only through the operation of determination can meanings designate individual real things. Since meaningful categories are intended to particular purposes, meaning is intentional and inclusive.
Abstract: Meaning as the original function of language is the arrangement of internal things on the part of the creative and historical individual subject who speaks a particular language. Meaning constitutes the series of contents making up the linguistic world human subjects can manage real things with. Real things are not described with meanings but merel...
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Modes of Thinking in Language Study
Jesus Martinez del Castillo
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
77-84
Received:
21 March 2015
Accepted:
23 March 2015
Published:
31 March 2015
Abstract: When we speak of language we usually use the concept of a particular language. In this sense the concept denoted with the word language may vary from one language to another. Real language (=the language spoken) on the contrary, is the reality lived by speakers thus encompassing complex and multifarious activities. Depending on the language spoken, the modes of thinking, modes of being in the conception of things and systems of beliefs transmitted by means of particular languages, denote the living reality of language with different grammatical categories. The concept “language” is expressed sometimes with a noun, thus denoting something existing in it; sometimes with a verb, thus denoting an action or an activity; and sometimes with an adverb, thus denoting the mode of an activity. The reality or degree of reality implicit in these grammatical categories involves a particular mode of thinking, prompted with a particular mode of being in the conception of things. Because of this it is necessary to distinguish the concept of language as something different from the reality of language. But first of all it is necessary to determine the reality or degree of reality of both the reality lived by speakers and the thing usually conceived of as language or a language.
Abstract: When we speak of language we usually use the concept of a particular language. In this sense the concept denoted with the word language may vary from one language to another. Real language (=the language spoken) on the contrary, is the reality lived by speakers thus encompassing complex and multifarious activities. Depending on the language spoken,...
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Modes of Thinking and Language Change: The Loss of Inflexions in Old English
Jesus Martinez del Castillo
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
85-95
Received:
25 March 2015
Accepted:
25 March 2015
Published:
8 April 2015
Abstract: The changes known as the loss of inflexions in English (11th- 15th centuries, included) were prompted with the introduction of a new mode of thinking. The mode of thinking, for the Anglo-Saxons, was a dynamic way of conceiving of things. Things were considered events happening. With the contacts of Anglo-Saxons with, first, the Romano-British; second, the introduction of Christianity; and finally with the Norman invasion, their dynamic way of thinking was confronted with the static conception of things coming from the Mediterranean. The history of English from the 11th to the 15th century meant the introduction, confrontation and adoption of a new mental conception of things, the static way of conceiving of things, both modes of thinking defining the language today.
Abstract: The changes known as the loss of inflexions in English (11th- 15th centuries, included) were prompted with the introduction of a new mode of thinking. The mode of thinking, for the Anglo-Saxons, was a dynamic way of conceiving of things. Things were considered events happening. With the contacts of Anglo-Saxons with, first, the Romano-British; seco...
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Categories and Language
Jesus Martinez del Castillo
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
96-104
Received:
26 March 2015
Accepted:
26 March 2015
Published:
11 April 2015
Abstract: Language exists because human subjects define themselves in the circumstance they are in. This is possible because they are able to know, not directly through their senses only, but adding something new to the construct they create in their conscience. The main thing they add to the construct created is categories, something invented or fabricated by the human subject at the moment of speaking.
Abstract: Language exists because human subjects define themselves in the circumstance they are in. This is possible because they are able to know, not directly through their senses only, but adding something new to the construct they create in their conscience. The main thing they add to the construct created is categories, something invented or fabricated ...
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The Transcendental Reality of Matter: An Interpretation
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
105-108
Received:
23 April 2015
Accepted:
24 April 2015
Published:
9 May 2015
Abstract: This paper is a study about the Transcendental Reality of matter. I want to investigate what is the extent of the word matter , dealing with it as a lexeme not merely reflecting reality but highlighting it, as Paul Klee proposes. Properly speaking the title of the paper should say “The Horizon of the Utopic-Transcendental Reality of ‘Matter’”.
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Language and Thought Convergence (Poetic Grammar)
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
109-111
Received:
26 September 2015
Accepted:
28 September 2015
Published:
12 October 2015
Abstract: The dichotomy between thought and language is resolved in the productive act of knowledge. Language is a creative product of cognitive function according to the development of the human brain. It happens while maintaining a modal resonance of its constitution in sensitive and perceptive world contact. Each of its units gives access to this phenomenon.
Abstract: The dichotomy between thought and language is resolved in the productive act of knowledge. Language is a creative product of cognitive function according to the development of the human brain. It happens while maintaining a modal resonance of its constitution in sensitive and perceptive world contact. Each of its units gives access to this phenomen...
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Parolization and Linguistics of Saying
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015
Pages:
112-116
Received:
26 September 2015
Accepted:
28 September 2015
Published:
12 October 2015
Abstract: Parolization, a term coined by Jürgen Trabant following Eugenio Coseriu’s guidelines, consists in the actualization of a text –seen as Ferdinand de Saussure’s langue– in reading or interpretation –seen as parole. This paper argues that parolization could be better understood if considered as an act of knowing, saying and speaking, that is, as the object of Linguistics of Saying. Aspects of this phenomenon are discussed and exemplified with literary texts (the Odissey, the Divine Comedy, La Celestina, the Cantar de Mío Cid, Rubén Darío’s Prosas profanas and Antonio Machado’s Soledades and Campos de Castilla).
Abstract: Parolization, a term coined by Jürgen Trabant following Eugenio Coseriu’s guidelines, consists in the actualization of a text –seen as Ferdinand de Saussure’s langue– in reading or interpretation –seen as parole. This paper argues that parolization could be better understood if considered as an act of knowing, saying and speaking, that is, as the o...
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