The philosophy of the language is part of the Philosophie which studies the language. This study relates on the significance or the direction in general, to the Usage of the language, its Apprentissage and its creative processes, on its Compréhension, like on the Communication, the Interprétation and the Traduction.

These problems particularly developed at the 20th century in the philosophy of English expression (see analytical Philosophie) in reaction to the Idéalisme of Hegel and to the Philosophie of Nietzsche.

The philosophy of the language raises questions of the following type: is

• Which the origin of the Langage? is

• Which the relation between the language and the Réalité? is
• Which the relation between the language and the Pensée? is
• Which the relation between the language and the Connaissance? is
• Which the relation between the language and other modes of Expression?
• What the Communication?
• That to make multiplicity of the Language S?
• What a Sign, a Dialog, a Text, a Speech, a stated?

History

Plato, Aristote and the Sophiste S already wrote on these questions like did many philosophers of the Moyen-âge and later of the modern philosophers like Giambattista Vico, Leibniz, Rousseau, Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried Herder, Immanuel Kant, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Hegel, Peirce and Friedrich Nietzsche.

At the 20th century, the Language S and the language became central “topics” in the most various traditions of Western philosophy. Among them:

• a theory of the language like part of a general theory of the forms symbolic systems (Ernst Cassirer),

• Of the philosophers who joined again with the tradition humboldtienne (Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger),
• Of the Marxist theorists (Volosniov, Rossi-Landi),
• post-structuralism (Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida),
• Of the feminist theorists (Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler),
• Of the theorists of the literature whose work has a philosophical range (Mikhaïl Bakhtine, Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man),
• a certain type of semiotics Charles Sanders Peirce, (Umberto Eco).

In the Anglo-Saxon countries, the analytical Philosophie dominated the philosophical speech over the language: Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Willard Quine, Donald Davidson, John Searle, Saul Kripke.

See too

• Hermeneutics

• Rhetoric

• Communication:

• linguistic Model of communication: Romance Jakobson

• cognitive Science:

• Linguistic cognitive: Lakoff
• cognitive Psychology: Dennett

Denotation | definite Description | epistemology | Logical | Truth

References

• Saul Kripke 1982 the logic of the proper names , transl. François Recanati, Paris: Midnight

• Recanati, François 1981 the statements performatifs , Paris: Midnight

External bonds

• Philosophy of the language at the XXè century