Glossary

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor's Introduction xiii
4. Translator's Preface xlv
5. Karl Bühler: Theory of Language. The representational function of language
6. Preface liii
7. Introduction 1
8. I. The Principles of Language Research
9. 1. The Idea and Plan of the Axiomatics 17
10. 2. The Model of Language as Organon (A) 30
11. 3. The Significative Nature of Language (B) 40
12. 4. Speech Action and Language Work; Speech Act and Language Structure (C) 57
13. 5. Word and Sentence 81
14. II. The Deictic Field of Language and Deictic Words
15. Introduction 93
16. 6. The Psychological Foundations of the Modes of Positional Deixis in Indo-European 97
17. 7. The Origin of the Deictic Field and its Mark 117
18. 8. Imagination-Oriented Deixis and the Anaphoric Use of Deictic Words 137
19. 9. Egocentric and Topomnestic Deixis in Various Languages 158
20. III. The Symbolic Field of Language and the Naming Words
21. The programme 169
22. 10. The Sympractical, the Symphysical and the Synsemantic Field of Language Signs 175
23. 11. Context and Field Factors in Detail 190
24. 12. Symbolic Fields in Non-Linguistic Representative Implements 203
25. 13. Onomatopoetic Language 220
26. 14. The Conceptual Signs of Language 242
27. 15. The Indo-European Case System as an Example of a Field Implement 265
28. 16. A Critical Review 282
29. IV The Make-up of Human Speech: Elements and Compositions
30. Introduction 289
31. 17. The Materially Determined Formation of the Acoustic Stream of Speech 294
32. 18. The Sound Shape and the Itemized Phonematic Description of Words 309
33. 19. The Simple and the Complex Word. The Characteristics of the Concept of the Word 329
34. 20. The Functions of the Article 345
35. 21. The Summative And 359
36. 22. Language Theoretical Studies on the Compound 365
37. 23. The Metaphor in Language 391
38. 24. The Problem of the Sentence 407
39. 25. The Sentence without a Deictic Field 418
40. 26. The Anaphora 438
41. 27. The Formal World of the Compound Sentence (a Sketch) 452
42. Bibliography 475
43. Glossary 486
44. Index of names 492
45. Index of topics 496