Wittgenstein: Iconicity in Language and «Experience of Meaning» [Wittgenstein: iconicidad en el lenguaje y «experiencia del significado»]

Facing the almost unanimous acceptance of the arbitrariness of linguistic sign thesis, it is possible, relying on recent cognitive linguistic research, to argue for the relative importance of iconicity in natural languages. Différent expressions of the iconic phenomenon known as « sound symbolism », moreover, strengthen a multimodal approach to language, in opposition to the prevalent view in linguistics as well as in the analytic philosophy of language. Dans ce document, my aim is to show that Wittgenstein has correctly identified these iconic and multimodal phenomena as cases of « experience of meaning » and that his investigations are compatible with the mentioned empirical results.

Facing the almost unanimous acceptance of the arbitrariness of linguistic sign thesis, it is possible, relying on recent cognitive linguistic research, to argue for the relative importance of iconicity in natural languages. Different expressions of the iconic phenomenon known as «sound symbolism», moreover, strengthen a multimodal approach to language, in opposition to the prevalent view in linguistics as well as in the analytic philosophy of language. In this paper, my aim is to show that Wittgenstein has correctly identified these iconic and multimodal phenomena as cases of "experience of meaning" and that his investigations are compatible with the mentioned empirical results.

Facing the almost unanimous acceptance of the arbitrariness of linguistic sign thesis, it is possible, relying on recent cognitive linguistic research, to argue for the relative importance of iconicity in natural languages. Different expressions of the iconic phenomenon known as "sound symbolism", moreover, strengthen a multimodal approach to language, in opposition to the prevalent view in linguistics as well as in the analytic philosophy of language. In this paper, my aim is to show that Wittgenstein has correctly identified these iconic and multimodal phenomena as cases of "experience of meaning" and that his investigations are compatible with the mentioned empirical results.

في مواجهة القبول بالإجماع تقريبًا لتعسف أطروحة الإشارة اللغوية، من الممكن، بالاعتماد على الأبحاث اللغوية المعرفية الحديثة، الجدال حول الأهمية النسبية للرموز في اللغات الطبيعية. علاوة على ذلك، فإن التعبيرات المختلفة للظاهرة الأيقونية المعروفة باسم "رمزية الصوت" تعزز النهج متعدد الوسائط للغة، على عكس النظرة السائدة في اللغويات وكذلك في الفلسفة التحليلية للغة. في هذه الورقة، هدفي هو إظهار أن فيتجنشتاين قد حدد بشكل صحيح هذه الظواهر الأيقونية والمتعددة الوسائط كحالات "تجربة المعنى" وأن تحقيقاته متوافقة مع النتائج التجريبية المذكورة.

Related Organizations

National University of Córdoba
Argentina

Keywords

Wittgenstein, Discourse Analysis, Sociology and Political Science, Meaning (existential), Linguistic Synaesthesia, Simbolismo Sonoro, Experiencia de Significado, Social Sciences, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Epistemology, Sociology, Multisensory Integration in Human Perception and Cognition, Psychology, Sound Symbolism, Metaphorical Representation of Time in Language and Cognition, Sinestesia Lingüística, Experience of Meaning, Linguistics, FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion, FOS: Sociology, FOS: Psychology, Philosophy, Synesthetic Experiences, Discourse Analysis and Social Change, FOS: Languages and literature, Iconicity, Iconicidad

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