Dispositional experience and current language research strategy

• Published in: Jazykovedný časopis Vol. 69; no. 1; pp. 111 - 120
• Main Author: Žigo, Pavol
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 01.06.2018
• Subjects: complexity; intensity; naturalness in language; spontaneous linguistic change; unity
• ISSN: 0021-5597; 1338-4287
• DOI: 10.2478/jazcas-2018-0016

The contribution deals with the degree of unity, complexity, intensity and their relatedness to the dispositional experience within linguistic investigation. Contemporary research strategies in linguistics testify to the liberalization of language and to the effort to re-evaluate the previous attitudes to the linguistic canon. A considerable role within formulating the theories about linguistic changes is played by the ability to identify the natural basis of the common thought of the ordinary users of language, by their public opinion concerning language, their voice of naturalness, their ability – as well as the strength – of their prejudices, but not to elevate/promote/raise the particular mistakes into the role of changes. A thorough theory of the identification or of the definition of linguistic changes and of the dynamism in language should be able to question also its own discourse and view it within the perspective of the phenomenal idea of R. Barthes “Do not do what I say but what I do”.