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LINGUISTICS: A WAY TO UNDERSTAND AND REPRESENT REALITY. From Modernism to Postmodernism. WHAT IS LINGUISTICS?. It is the science of language The linguistic analysis can be arranged into four parts : p honology morphology. Research tools. Working method. Improvement. syntax semantic.
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LINGUISTICS:A WAY TO UNDERSTAND AND REPRESENT REALITY FromModernismtoPostmodernism
WHAT IS LINGUISTICS? Itis the scienceoflanguage The linguisticanalysis can bearrangedintofourparts: • phonology • morphology Researchtools Workingmethod Improvement • syntax • semantic
SOME PHILOSOPHERS Ferdinand de Saussure (1857 – 1913) • Theoryofsynchroniclanguage • Meaningbuiltthroughdifference and binarypairs • Conceptsoflangue and parole • Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984) • Analysisof the discourse’s function • Discourseas a powertool
SOME PHILOSOPHERS Jacques Derrida (1930 – 2004) “Deconstruction” • No definitive link betweensignifier and signifiedinstabilityofmeaning • Textsasproductsofintertextuality • Meaningbuiltthroughdifference and binarypairs
MATERIALISTIC SEMIOTICS • Theoreticalapproachestosigns production and communication Studyingof the influencesbetweensignsystems and socioeconomicsystems • Inspiredby Karl Marx’s philosophy Tomakeexplicit the relationshipbetween text and context
SEMIOTICIANS ValentinVoloshinov (1895 – 1936) • Signsas the siteswheresubjects (psyche) and object (social word) intersect • Signsusedtopromoteideologies • No connection betweenlanguagecommunities and classcategories • GyörgyLukács (1885 – 1971) • Languageasmeanofclassrule • Connection betweenlanguagecommunities and classcategories • Destructionof the subject – objecttotalityofanhumanized word becauseofCapitalism • Alienationof the low class
WHY DID LINGUISTICS DEVELOP DURING MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM? Becauseof: • The crisisofvaluesduring the ModernAge Necessityofunderstanding and representing the world and reality in alltheiraspects
THE CRISIS OF VALUES • Theoryofevolutionby Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) • Theoryofrelativityby Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
THE CRISIS OF VALUES • The deathofmetaphisysic: Godis deadby Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) • The conceptofunconsciousby Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)
TO UNDERSTAND AND REPRESENT REALITY Itisdifficulttounderstand and representallaspects’ reality Linguisticsisarrangedintodifferentfields: • synchroniclinguistics • diachroniclinguistics • theoreticallinguistics • appliedlinguistics • historicallinguistics Everyfieldexplains a specificaspectof reality • comparative linguistics • psycholinguistics • sociolinguistics • stylistics
WORK BY: Iaccarino Luca Selvazzo Enrico Class V A SchoolYear 2012 - 2013