Theory of language : the representational function of language / Karl Bühler ; translated by Donald Fraser Goodwin.

Translation of: Sprachtheorie.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-485) and indexes.

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THEORY OF LANGUAGE THE REPRESENTATIONAL FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Editor's Introduction -Karl Bühler: Sematologist; References; 2. Manuscripts in Bühler's Literary Estate.; 3. Archive materials and documents related to administrative processes.; NOTES; Translator's Preface; Preface; Introduction: Theory of Language Yesterday and Today; 0. Historical works; 1. Paul's ""Principles of the History of Language"" -- dependency on Descartes -- natural sciences and history

2. Saussure's ""Course"" -- substance-oriented thought in the nineteenth century3. Husserl's programme in the ""Logical Investigations""; PART I. The Principles of Language Research; 1. Idea and Plan of the Axiomatics; 1.0 Observations and the ideas guiding research; 1.1 Exact recordings -- three manners of understanding; 1.2 Initial object of linguistic research -- the conceptual world of the linguistic researcher; 1.3 Axioms of language research; 1.4 The four principles; 2. The Model of Language as Organon (A); 2.0 Manners of appearance of the concrete speech event

2.1 Inadequacy of the causal view of substance-oriented thought2.2 The new model: the three semantic functions of language; 2.3 Expression and appeal as independent variables in addition to representation -- the three books on language; 3. The Significative Nature of Language (B); 3.0 The constructive model of language; 3.1 The etyma of the words for sign; 3.2 Direct analysis of the concept of sign -- comparative psychology -- a general formula; 3.3 ""Aliquid stat pro aliquo"": two determinations; 3.4 The principle of abstractive relevance, illustrated by phonology

3.5 The problem of abstraction3.6 Two forms of material fallacy; 4. Speech Action and Language Work; Speech Act and Language Structure (C); 4.0 Inadequacy of previous dichotomies: the four-celled pattern; 4.1 Speech action and language work -- empractical speech -- la parole; 4.2 The work of art in language -- the theory of speech action; 4.3 The structures in language -- criticism -- structural survey in linguistics -- the higher level of formalization -- comparisons outside the linguistic realm -- intersubjectivity

4.4 Theory of speech acts -- Steinthal and Husserl -- appreciation of Hus-serl's theory of acts -- the social factor in language5. Word and Sentence.The S-F-System of the Type Language (D); 5.0 The features of the concept of language; 5.1 Analysis of a one-class system of communicative signals; 5.2 The two-class system language -- the dogma of lexicon and syntax; 5.3 The productivity of field systems; 5.4 Logic and linguistics; PART II. The Deictic Field of Language and Deictic Words; Introduction; The signpost and the speech action; The deictic field -- modes of deixis

Karl Bühler (1879-1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of this century. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) has been praised widely and gained considerable recognition in the fields of linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and the psychology of language. The work has, however, resisted translation into English partly because of its spirited and vivid style, partly because of the depth and range of analysis, partly because of the great erudition of the author, who displays a thorough command of both the linguistic and the philosophical traditions. With this.

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