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Paul Ricoeur on Language - Dictionary of Arguments

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Language/RicoeurVsSaussure/Ricoeur: To [the] unidimensional approach to language, for which
signs are the only basic entities (>Structural linguistics/Ricoeur
), I want to oppose a two-dimensional approach for which language relies on two irreducible entities, signs and sentences. This duality does not coincide with that of langue and parole as defined in Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale(1), or even as that duality was later reformulated as the opposition between code and message. In the terminology of langue and
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parole (...).
Language/Emile Benveniste/Ricoeur: [according to Benveniste] language relies on the possibility of two kinds of operations, integration into larger wholes, and dissociation into constitutive parts. The sense proceeds from the first operation, the form from the second. >Discourse/Ricoeur.
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Language is not a world of its own. It is not even a world. But because we are in the world, because we are affected by situations, and because we orient ourselves comprehensively in those situations, we
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have something to say, we have experience to bring to language. >Utterer’s Meaning/Ricoeur.
[The] notion of bringing experience to language is the ontological condition of reference, an ontological condition reflected within language as a postulate which has not immanent justification; the postulate according to which we presuppose the existence of singular things which we identify.


1. Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique générale (Paris: Payot, 1971); English trans., by Wade Baskin, Course in General Linguistics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966).

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Ricoeur I
Paul Ricoeur
De L’interprétation. Essai sur Sigmund Freud
German Edition:
Die Interpretation. Ein Versuch über Freud Frankfurt/M. 1999

Ricoeur II
Paul Ricoeur
Interpretation theory: discourse and the surplus of meaning Fort Worth 1976


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