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Clarifying language by contrast
pp. 55-65
Abstract
There are two principal places in Sprachtheorie where Bühler undertook a comparison arison between language and other representational sign systems. The first is in §12, “Symbol Fields in Nonlinguistic Representational Instruments,” and the second in §26, “Anaphora.” Bühler’s goal was not a systematic phenomenology of sign artifacts and their comparative grammar but a clarification of the specificity of language. The various nonlinguistic representational systems are used as analyzers (Analysatoren) of language, are confronted with language with the intent of primarily clarifying language, even if the true analogies between language uage and the other systems are plain as pikestaff (ST 180). In spite of the very real analogies, however, Baler thought that there was something sui generis about language that would be revealed by such a comparative undertaking, whose primary goal was the construction of a model of language.
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Innis Robert (1982) Karl Bühler: semiotic foundations of language theory. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 55-65
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-0923-0_5
Full citation:
Innis Robert (1982) Clarifying language by contrast, In: Karl Bühler, Dordrecht, Springer, 55–65.