Znovu k Vachkově teorii psané formy jazyka

• Authors: Kodytek Vilem

Title variants

EN

VACHEK'S THEORY OF WRITTEN LANGUAGE REVISITED

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The key points of Josef Vachek's theory of written language (Vachek, 1939, rev. 1959) can be summarized as follows: (1) Speech and writing are complementary, i.e., for a given communicative situation, one is more convenient than the other. Writing serves, as a rule, more specialized functions (purposes) than speech does, which makes it the marked member of the pair. (2) Writing is (a) governed by a norm of its own (social aspect), and (b) no longer a second-order semiotic system for experienced readers (cognitive aspect). Quite recently, Adam (2009) has criticized Vachek's approach as being old-fashioned and empirically inadequate, and has suggested replacing it with a theory based ‘on the substance only'. The purpose of the present paper is to recall Vachek's theory and to demonstrate that most of Adam's arguments are irrelevant or misleading.

Keywords

EN

LINGUISTIC NORM; SILENT READING; SPEECH AND WRITING; VACHEK JOSEF

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: 2011
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 118-129
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kodytek Vilem

• Vilem Kodytek, Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ustav pro jazyk cesky AV CR, v.v.i., Letenska 4, Praha 1, 118 51, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA095015