Conventionality : an hypothesis for linguistic change / Convencionalidade : uma hipotese para a mudança linguistica

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2008

RESUMO

In the article La forme et le sens dans le langage, published in 1966, Benveniste states the need to separate Linguistics in two parts: one dealing with language forms, corresponding to the already existent linguistics of the langue; the other dealing with language meaning still to be developed. Benveniste consider Saussurean linguistics, as it is exposed along the Cours de Linguistique Générale, as being limited in order to cover language meaning phenomena. In a revision of Saussurean thought, done over the examination of Saussure’s original writings, Simon Bouquet states that, on the contrary, Saussurean formulations dispose his linguistics to investigate these phenomena from the establishment of a “meaning grammar”, in ontological and epistemological continuity with the linguistics of the langue. The approach proposed by Bouquet opens the way to a reformulation of the concept of langue, in a way it may not anymore be understood as an static entity, but as one which embodies change as a feature of its permanent condition. In this hypothesis, linguistic change is understood as an event motivated by a language inherent property and not as an external event which troubles its stability. This property is called conventionality, proposed from the Saussurean notion of langue as a convention, and manifests itself in a tacit attitude of the speakers communities, who attribute meanings to terms and care collectively for the maintenance of language integrity as a shared domain.

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semantics linguistica change mudança linguistica convenção (filosofia) linguagem convention (philosophy) semantica lingua

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