NOVI POJMOVNIK LINGVISTIKE GOVORA
A NEW GLOSSARY OF THE LINGUISTICS OF SPEECH

Summary/Abstract: Linguistic science of today focuses once again on the linguistic potential of words and the spirituality of language. In this way, it redefines the subject of general linguistics and its terminology, and constructs a new glossary for the linguistics of speech. The nature of these changes is closely related to the development of research areas covered by semantics, pragmatics, socialpsychology and cognitive sciences. Contemporary linguistic research tends to focus on context typology and communication, by applying contextual methods in integral language descriptions. Different language usages have placed the linguistics of speech in the context of new rhetoric and stylistics, due to the importance attributed to sociological and psychological approaches to the speech phenomenon. The degree to which linguistics departs from its initial definitions depends on communication, strategies, and planning within particular scientific disciplines. For this reason, it can be stated that a new glossary for the linguistics of speech is in itself euphemistic, and as such requires a precise and systematic approach regarding the level of discourse to which it belongs, as a concrete form of linguistic activity. Speaking competence approximately corresponds to the relatively recent term of “communicative competence,” requiring an integral knowledge of the code of the language, the environment and the ability to speak. There is no doubt that the linguistic context has been theoretically broadened in relation to traditional approaches to speech, although its terms are still distributed in systemic relations of all the levels on which they function. As far as innovative and new terms of the linguistics of speech are concerned, it is more necessary than ever to emphasize the fields of their use and their communicative aims, since several sciences, each from its own aspect, are currently contributing to the analytical research of speech.

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