Theory of Language

The representational function of language

Karl Bühler

Donald Fraser Goodwin

Achim Eschbach

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Karl Bühler (1879–1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of the twentieth century. Although primarily a psychologist, Bühler devoted much of his attention to the study of language and language theory. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) quickly gained recognition in the fields of linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and the psychology of language. This new edition of the English translation of Bühler’s theory begins with a survey on ‘Bühler’s legacy’ for modern linguistics (Werner Abraham), followed by the Theory of Language, and finally with a special ‘Postscript: Twenty-five Years Later …’ (Achim Eschbach). Bühler’s theory is divided into four parts. Part I discusses the four axioms or principles of language research, the most famous of which is the first, the organon model, the base of Bühler's instrumental view of language. Part II treats the role of indexicality in language and discusses deixis as one determinant of speech. Part III examines the symbolic field, dealing with context, onomatopoeia and the function of case. Part IV deals with the elements of language and their organization (syllabification, the definition of the word, metaphor, anaphora, etc).The text is accompanied by an Introduction (Achim Eschbach); Translator's preface (Donald Fraser Goodwin); Glossary of terms; and a Bibliography of cited works.

[Not in series, 164] 2011. xcviii, 518 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.164

Table of Contents

Preface

Werner Abraham | pp. xiii–xlvii

Editor's Introduction - Karl Bühler: Sematologist

Achim Eschbach | pp. xlix–lxxix

Translator's Preface

Donald Fraser Goodwin | pp. lxxxi–lxxxv

KARL BUHLER: THEORY OF LANGUAGE: The representational function of language

Preface | pp. lxxxix–xcviii

Introduction: Theory of Language Yesterday and Today | pp. 1–13

I. The Principles of Language Research

1. The Idea and Plan of the Axiomatics | pp. 17–29

2. The Model of Language as Organon (A) | pp. 30–39

3. The Significative Nature of Language (B) | pp. 40–56

4. Speech Action and Language Work; Speech Act and Language Structure (C) | pp. 57–80

5. Word and Sentence. The S-F-System of the Type Language (D) | pp. 81–90

II. The Deictic Field of Language and Deictic Words: Introduction

6. The Psychological Foundations of the Modes of Positional: Deixis in Indo-European | pp. 97–116

7. The Origin of the Deictic Field and its Mark | pp. 117–136

8. Imagination-Oriented Deixis and the Anaphoric Use of Deictic Words | pp. 137–157

9. Egocentric and Topomnestic Deixis in Various Languages | pp. 158–166

III. The Symbolic Field of Language and the Naming Words: The programme

10. The Sympractical, the SYDlphysical and the Synsemantic Field of Language Signs | pp. 175–189

11. Context and Field Factors in Detail | pp. 190–202

12. Symbolic Fields in Non-Linguistic Representative Implements | pp. 203–219

13. Onomatopoetic Language | pp. 220–241

14. The Conceptual Signs of Language | pp. 242–264

15. The Indo-European Case System as an Example of a Field Implement | pp. 265–281

16. A Critical Review | pp. 282–286

IV. The Make-up of Human Speech: Elements and Compositions: Introduction

17. The Materially Determined Formation of the Acoustic Stream of Speech | pp. 294–308

18. The Sound Shape and the Itemized Phonematic Description of Words | pp. 309–328

19. The Simple and the Complex Word. The Characteristics of the Concept of the Word | pp. 329–344

20. The Functions of the Article | pp. 345–358

21. The Summative And | pp. 359–364

22. Language Theoretical Studies on the Compound | pp. 365–390

23. The Metaphor in Language | pp. 391–406

24. The Problem of the Sentence | pp. 407–417

25. The Sentence without a Deictic Field | pp. 418–437

26. The Anaphora | pp. 438–451

27. The Formal World of the Compound Sentence (a Sketch) | pp. 452–474

Bibliography | pp. 475–485

Glossary | pp. 486–491

Index of names | pp. 492–495

Index of topics | pp. 496–508

Postscript | pp. 509–518

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