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- Title
Language: A Homogeneous Closed Structure or Heterogeneous Uses?
- Authors
Solaiman, Millia
- Abstract
There has always been a discrepancy between those who viewed language as a mere abstract structure or closed system and those who viewed it as a practical reality of different uses. These two different visualizations of language mark the basic turning point from the structural approach to the post-structural, pragmatic and dialogical approaches to language and meaning. Thus, in order to answer the question posed in this paper, viz.: 'Is language a homogeneous closed structure or heterogeneous reality of different uses?', I will present and discuss how some selected leading scholars of the structural, post-structural, pragmatic and dialogical approaches viewed language in this regard.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE &; languages; VISUALIZATION; PRAGMATICS; POSTSTRUCTURALISM; REALITY
- Publication
Language in India, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 3, p133
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article