concept: LANGUAGE

concept-key: https://vernacular.cloud/0.0.1/D342PEuGolWobnQ9lsx33JeH/

Definition

Logos, language, broadly conceived. Grammar, syntax, and semantic operations that enable sapient practice.

Cite Robert Brandom's notion of an autonomous discursive practice. A vocabulary that can be deployed though it contains no other vocabulary. But the key distinction is whether a language contains its metavocabulary. A natural language is one that contains its own metavocabulary. This is what distinguishes a completely grammatical language from a synthetic language. Or an informational code like DNA. This is the grammatical strange loop, comparable to Hofstadter's strange loop of consciousness.

Syntax are the rules of information format. Grammar are the rules by which language maps to the sentient, social, ostensive world.

Language can be:

• talking about things (ostensive)
• talking about talking (metalinguistic)
• talking about talkers (heterosubjectivel)

!Victor Badinage Quotes by Theme#^cec2ae

If in an investigation explicit reference is made to the speaker, or, to put it in more general terms, to the user of a language, the we assign it to the field of pragmatics. If we oubliate the user of the language and analyze on the expressions and their designata, we are in the field of semantics. And if, finally, we oubliate the designata also and analyze only the relations between the expressions, we are in (logical) syntax. The whole science of language, consisting of the three parts mentioned, is called linguistics. ^9e8ff0

Philosophy is the metalanguage that must form a part of any natural language.

Broader

• magisterium

Narrower

• word-sentence-thesis
• word
• sentence
• thesis
• name-description-explanation
• name
• description
• explanation

Related

enables the representation of associative (non-hierarchical) links, which can also be used to represent part-whole links that are not meant as hierarchical relationships.