Language and mediality : on the medial status of "everyday language"

  • 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.

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Author:Jan Georg SchneiderGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1132831
URL:https://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/germanistik/lehrende/schneider_j/language_and_mediality.pdf
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2006.02.008
ISSN:0271-5309
Parent Title (English):Language & communication
Publisher:Elsevier
Place of publication:New York, NY [u. a.]
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2006
Date of first Publication:2006/03/23
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2009/09/22
Tag:Everyday language; Mediality; Medium; Mentalism; Performance/competence; Wittgenstein
GND Keyword:Methodologie; Sprachphilosophie
Volume:26
Issue:3-4
Page Number:12
First Page:331
Last Page:342
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Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Source:http://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/germanistik/lehrende/schneider_j/language_and_mediality.pdf ; (in:) Language & Communication, 3-4, 26, 2006, S. 331-342
HeBIS-PPN:218882904
Institutes:keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtheorie / Theory of language
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht