Analogia ca formă de manifestare a creativităţii limbajului. Cu privire la concepţia lingvistică a lui Eugeniu Coşeriu
Analogia ca formă de manifestare a creativităţii limbajului. Cu privire la concepţia lingvistică a lui Eugeniu Coşeriu

Summary/Abstract: As it was defined by Eugeniu Coşeriu, language (understood as “speech”) is a creative, free and purposeful human activity. Language creativity – one of the universals that define language reality – is the outcome of a creative authority’s activity, which is the speaker himself. When dealing with linguistic change, Eugeniu Coşeriu demonstrates that this natural phenomenon, affecting the existence of any living language, is nothing but the creative energy (Gr. energeia) that is scientifically objected and turned into “knowledge” (Gr. dynamis), thus becoming tradition and serving as a model for future innovations. Man’s freedom of creation is not unlimited; the existence of some linguistic tradition and patterns of expression makes the speaker proceed analogically whenever he wants to create in his own language. Any speaker is the owner of some knowledge of a saber (“competence”) that represents the starting point of a speech that is always new and always to come. However, this “novelty” or originality of speech is relative, because on the one hand it goes beyond the dynamis, and on the other hand it returns to the dynamis status, in case linguistic innovation is adopted as a pattern (for future but analogical innovations) and turns itself into tradition. In such an interpretation, stating that analogy represents an aspect of dynamis means that it is given a special significance within the process of linguistic change or, better said, within the framework of language creativity.

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