Moving Words

Savina Raynaud

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Abstract

We move words and words move us. To describe and explain how and why this happens, the present article focuses on Prague traditions, both on the philosophical and linguistic elements. The semantic and syntactic approach is summarized, as developed by Anton Marty, belonging to the Brentano school, and by Vilém Mathesius, founder of the Prague Linguistic Circle, as well as by Jan Firbas, who developed the functional sentence perspective (FSP) into the theory of communicative dynamism (CD). The four Principles of FSP and the four factors of CD are highlighted, together with the related criticism that stems from a systematic work of corpus annotation, a true test procedure for any theory concerned with word order, the interplay between lexicon and morphology, rhythm, intonation and their effects on the addressee’s psychic and emotive processes and life.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)17-30
Number of pages14
JournalGESTALT THEORY
Volume42
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Ganze und Teile
  • Intersubjektvität
  • Sprache
  • Wortstellung
  • intersubjectivity,
  • language
  • motio affectuum
  • parts and wholes
  • word order

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