Komunikace versus systém, nebo komunikace versus model?

• Authors: Cech Radek

Title variants

EN

COMMUNICATION VERSUS SYSTEM OR COMMUNICATION VERSUS MODEL?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article is a reaction to M. Komarek's essay Communication versus system? (1999) and is primarily concerned with the critical analysis of the dichotomic concept of natural language. In particular, the absence of empirical evidence for a language system (langue) is pointed out, which creates serious issues for the entire structuralist approach. That is, if it is impossible to have empirical experience with a language system (langue), it is thus impossible from the position of empirical science to make any sort of claim regarding the relationship between this system and concrete instances of speech. It is thus deemed necessary to reject the langue-parole dichotomy in linguistics. The aim of non-dichotomic linguistics is, then, to create models of the speech behavior of language users, not the reconstruction of a language system (langue). As natural language in actual communication is quite varied, these models will have a merely approximative character.

Keywords

EN

COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE SYSTEM; MODEL

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 176-180
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Cech Radek

• Radek Cech, Pedagogicka fakulta UP, Zizkovo nam. 5, Olomouc, 771 40, Czech Republic, http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/2854/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA057221