Language as Key to Reality: From Philosophy of Name to Discourse

Ekaterina Kabahidze

doi:10.21603/2542-1840-2024-8-1-21-32

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LANGUAGE AS KEY TO REALITY: FROM PHILOSOPHY OF NAME TO DISCOURSE Language as Key to Reality: From Philosophy of Name to Discourse

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Published in Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Humanities and Social Sciences · Pages 21–32 · Rubric: Interdisciplinary Language Studies

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21603/2542-1840-2024-8-1-21-32

Received: 13.11.2023 Accepted: 29.01.2024 Published: 14.03.2024

Authors

Ekaterina Kabahidze

Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Federation · Moscow

ABSTRACT

Language and consciousness are two transcendental categories that determine the processes of cognition, thinking, introspection, perception, and subject-object relations. At different stages of philosophy, they were interpreted depending on the dominant philosophical and ideological paradigm in relation to reality, the existential goals of the subject and society, and methodological approaches, e.g., phenomenological, hermeneutical, discursive, etc. This article systematizes the basic concepts of language in various historical epochs, i.e., from antiquity to the XXI century. The evolution of views on language is represented not from the standpoint of self-reference, but through the prism of socio-cultural and socio-historical changes in reality and its relation to the subject. The author traced the development of the philosophy of language and defined the reasons behind the evolution of approaches to language and consciousness. The article attempts to answer two questions: How do different paradigms of the philosophy of language and consciousness approach the matter of subject’s access to the real world? To what extent were paradigm shifts caused by the changing cultural, historical, and socio-political backgrounds? Since evolutionary epistemology identifies gnoseology as one of the main functions of language, the categories of thinking and understanding receive special attention. The growing complexity of the world order affects the relationship between language and consciousness, i.e., from singularity (philosophy of name) to continuality (discourse).

KEYWORDS

language, consciousness, phenomenology, discourse, hermeneutics, structuralism, pragmatics

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