The three planes of language  

Oleh:

Sampson, Gloria

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 21 no. 1 (1999), page 1-30.
Topik: Information processing; Linguistic theories; Meaning; Philosophy of language; Semiotics; Sentences; Speech acts
Fulltext: 21_01_Sampson.pdf (271.85KB)

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The language sciences at the present time jumble together four di?erent forms of mental activity, bunching them together on one plane of language. This jumble results in confusion about which aspects of language are genetically given and which are socially constructed, and splits the language sciences into unrelated and unrelatable domains of investigation. Researchers in the di?erent domains produce what apear to be contradictory ®ndings. Arguments from metaphysics, hermeneutics, and semiotics are presented to demonstrate that there are in fact three planes of language. The ®rst is a biologically based information- processing plane which carries no meaning. The second, the literal plane, is the sensual expression of operations upon the innate information-processing device and carries meaning, but the meaning is indeterminate. The third, the mythic plane, is socially constructed and carries determinate meaning. The socially constructed meanings are not acquired, but appropriated through initiation into communities, and because they are objecti®ed mind are evidence that mind, in principle, cannot be located in individuals nor reduced to brain, but is distributed among individuals, the texts they produce, the artifacts they create, and the institutions they develop.

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