CONCORDIA DISCORS vs DISCORDIA CONCORS

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Authors: Emma TĂMÂIANU-MORITA

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Authors: Michelle RODRÍGUEZ CHIW

One of the theoretical legacies left by Eugenio Coseriu in works such as Synchrony, Diachrony and History is the establishment of a concept of norm derived from linguistic theory and applicable to the theory of language. Through this, the contributions of the same made it possible to understand the norm as an act and a product that comes from the intrinsic relationship between the individual and his language. With the present text it is desired to contribute to the theoretical extension of the Coserian concept of norm in linguistics by contrasting it with that of Luis Fernando Lara, with the aim of observing the way in which both linguistics per se and sociolinguistics can study this scientific term in its application in multicultural fields of study. For this, linguistic attitudes will be used to incorporate new ways of conceiving the norm in social contexts and the way in which they delimit and reduce the linguistic system.

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Authors: Vincenzo ORIOLES

The present study aims to deal with several questions related to the frame of metalanguage, a construct that plays a crucial role in contemporary linguistic research, especially since Roman Jakobson gave to the term an amplified value compared to the original status assigned to it by the logicians. First of all, the author presents Eugenio Coseriu‘s original contribution to the characterization of the concept, distancing himself from Jakobson‘s position; emphasizing – according to its peculiar modus operandi – the reference to the tradition of past studies; proposing an articulated typology of metalinguistic utterances. Then an in-depth study of the metalinguistically relevant notions in Coseriu‘s work is given: in particular the Romanian linguist shows a preference for patterns founded on terminological three-way distribution. The conclusion focuses on the extent to which Coseriu‘s reflection on metalanguage and its devices have become part of his legacy to the scientific community.

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Authors: Cristina VARGA

Known for his extensive linguistic work and for his complex linguistic theoretical system, Eugenio Coseriu debates on different occasions the problematics of terminology as a secondary topic in different studies. Under the influence of the increasing visibility of terminology as a discipline, Coseriu‘s ideas on terminology published in the 1970s and 1980s have been used as a theoretical framework in terminology research and are quoted in several terminological studies. This article aims to explore and systematize all ideas about terminology put forward in Coserian studies, answering the following questions: in which articles does Coseriu state his ideas about terminology? What are the main Coserian views on terminology? Which of Eugenio Coseriu's statements about terminology come close to current theories of terminology? Our research is intended to provide a comprehensive inventory of Coserian statements about terminology and, in particular, about the place of terminology in the author's linguistic work.

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Authors: Ana AGUD

Coseriu‘s idea of an ―integral linguistics‖ needs a thorough reflection because it embraces two different and partly incompatible aims: to counteract the extreme fragmentation of modern linguistic research through philosophical reflection on the true nature of ―language‖, and to work out some coherent way of approaching linguistic research which avoids its being torn apart by the diversity of the objects constituted by linguists and linguistic schools. No new positive theory of the whole of language might overcome this disintegration. Coseriu‘s efforts to enlarge the scope to include linguistic facts have to be submitted to a radical skeptical reflection on the possibility of such an overall positive theory, based on the real fact that factual speech is not the mere use of any virtual system, but an ongoing creation of sense by individuals, and also that linguistics is itself such ―factual speech‖: individual, historical, diffuse. Coseriu did not deliver any general theory of language, but the living example of a rich and widely comprehensive individual personality, approaching language from a critical attitude to inherited categories and methods.

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Authors: Araceli LÓPEZ SERENA

Despite conceiving epistemological principles as the most important element in a science and strongly defending the indissolubility between the linguistic and philosophical dimensions of theorization, Eugenio Coseriu expressed a great number of his epistemological convictions only as mere comments scattered across different writings. For this reason, it is not always easy to realize which aspects of his linguistic thinking, which argumentation procedures and which key categorizations and concepts in his linguistic theorization originated from issues of a philosophical nature – especially as far as philosophy of linguistics is specifically concerned. In this respect, the present paper aims to identify the philosophical-scientific foundations underlying ―Logicismo y antilogicismo en la gramática‖ (―Logicism and Antilogicism in Grammar‖). In doing so, I intend to show that this work is not a mere linguistic study, but an essential approach to unravel the epistemological principles around which the whole philosophical-scientific edifice of Coserian linguistic theory is structured.

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Authors: Keita IKARASHI, Ryohei NAYA

Japanese has the Lexical Integrity Principle (LIP) in its system, making it impossible for syntax to get into the intra structure of morphological elements like compounds: hence, instances like *[taihenkookyuu]-hoteru ([very high.class]-hotel), where the bracketed syntactic phrase causes incorrectness. Nevertheless, we observe compounds called phrasal compounds which violate the LIP. Although such compounds have been noticed in some studies, they have not been analyzed comprehensively. Eugenio Coseriu‘s theory, by contrast, enables us to reveal the nature of phrasal compounds. Based on his integral linguistic theory, this paper demonstrates that phrasal compounds in Japanese can be classified into two distinct types. The first type is part of the speaker‘s idiomatic knowledge. Specifically, it resides in the norm of Japanese, and succeeds in evading the exclusion by the LIP. The second type is judged as being incorrect at the historical level due to the LIP, but a contextual motivation at the individual level suspends such incorrectness, making it appropriate.