Abstract

ZIYAD OGLU, Nazim Huseynli. Language and thinking: logical and historical approach. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2023, vol.15, n.4, pp. 294-302.  Epub Aug 12, 2023. ISSN 2218-3620.

The objective of this work is to analyze the relationship between language and thought from a logical and historical perspective. For this, current references on philosophy, linguistics and logic related to the issue of language and thinking have been analyzed and concluded that the factor relates language and thinking to each other is actually neither the units of thinking nor of language, but a category of names with synthetic content. On one hand, a name is an opinion about the subjects of reality while on the other hand it is one of the factors that determines communication with regards to the units of language, on basis of which the relation between “the expressed object” and “the expressing subject” is elucidated and the content of an opinion is reasonably differentiated from the content of language. The importance and relevance of the analyzed topic lies in the fact that language allows us to express and communicate our thoughts, while thought shapes and structures our use of language to understand and make sense of the world, which shows the close relationship between both concepts.

Keywords : Philosophy; Linguistics; Logical-grammatical approach; Alexander Potebnya; Jan Baudouin de Courtenay.

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