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Perspektywy badań nad językiem w oparciu o hermeneutykę filozoficzną Hansa-Georga Gadamera
Language Research Perspectives Based on the Philosophical Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer

Author(s): Aleksander Krzyżanek
Subject(s): Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Analytic Philosophy, Hermeneutics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: discourse analysis; hermeneutic philosophy; linguistics; philosophical hermeneutics; philosophy of language

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I accomplish two goals: first, I briefly reconstruct Hans-Georg Gadamer’s views on language, included foremost in Truth and Method. I discuss if and how can we analyse language in the hermeneutic way; what is Gadamer’s view on philosophy of language and linguistics; what is the hermeneutic priority of the question and why choosing the logic of question may lead to a conflict between philosophical hermeneutics and analytic philosophy. Then, on such base I show correlations, which can be traced between hermeneutic philosophy and other contemporary language research disciplines – generally understood linguistics, analytic philosophy of language and interdisciplinary discourse research. Taking a closer look at each of the mentioned disciplines I focus on trying to answer the question regarding their ideological and methodological connections with the hermeneutic way of thinking. The article ends with a conclusion, that interdisciplinary discourse analysis produces the highest hopes to analyse language in a non-objective matter, which is the way that Gadamer favoured.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 66
  • Page Range: 101-121
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish
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