TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schneider, Jan Georg
T1  - Language and mediality : on the medial status of "everyday language"
T2  - Language & communication
N2  - The medium of (oral) language is mostly disregarded (or overlooked) in contemporary media theories. This "ignoring of language" in media studies is often accompanied by an inadequate transport model of communication, and it converges with an "ignoring of mediality" in mentalistic theories of language. In the present article it will be argued that this misleading opposition of language and media can only be overcome if one already regards oral language, not just written language, as a medium of the human mind. In my argumentation I fall back on Wittgenstein’s conception of language games to try to show how Wittgenstein’s ideas can help us to clear up the problem of the mediality of language and also to show to what extent the mentalistic conception of Chomskyan provenance cannot be adequate to the phenomenon of language.
KW  - Methodologie
KW  - Sprachphilosophie
KW  - Mediality
KW  - Medium
KW  - Wittgenstein
KW  - Everyday language
KW  - Mentalism
KW  - Performance/competence
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12400
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1132831
UR  - https://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/germanistik/lehrende/schneider_j/language_and_mediality.pdf
SN  - 0271-5309
N1  - Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
VL  - 26
IS  - 3-4
SP  - 331
EP  - 342
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - New York, NY [u. a.]
ER  -