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SPATIUL SEMANTIC AL COMUNICĂRII – DE LA TENSIUNE ETIMOLOGICĂ LA CONTESTATIILE VIRTUALE DIN DEFINIREA HABERMASIANĂ
The semantic space of communication

Author(s): Nicolae Perpelea
Subject(s): Historical Linguistics
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: etymological paradox of ‘communication’; sanskrite roots; Deliberative; democracy; Habermas’s paradigm

Summary/Abstract: The language-roots of communication have forked derivations. There is the Latin communis, but an ancient compound is the Proto-Indo-European ko-moin-i- (“held in common”). The suffixes mei and meith (“to change, go, move”) together with base tra (“instrument”) have given mitras (“contractual partener”, “alternating reciprocity”). In Sanskrit,methati, myth mean “to meet a friend or an enemy”. The bivalences contained by this complex semantic space are nurturing the modern “communication”, and they can be found as tacit assumptions in Habermas’s communication paradigm

  • Issue Year: XIII/2015
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 301-312
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian