Zsilka János: Dialectics of the motion forms in language (Budapest, 1981)
János Zsilka DIALECTICS OF THE MOTION FORMS IN LANGUAGE The Organic, Hypothetical and Homosyntactic Levels of the Structure of Language This is a critical exposition of trends in contemporary linguistics and the elaboration of an original view of language. The approach is original in that by exploring concrete relations, sentences are developed into coherent chains of relations, into an organic system. Parallel to the unfolding of this organic system, the socalled hypothetical system is evolved, within the framework of which the sentences of the organic system can be deductively derived. The creative critical features of the new system operate at the hypothetical level not only in being capable of refuting the generative conception of language, but also by indicating its place in the real functioning of languages, which is realized in the inseparable unity of movements of phenomena from concrete to general and from general to concrete. Structuralism, in its popular varieties, is metaphysical in its method and idealistic in its content. In the author’s conception the functioning of language is fundamentally dialectical; the organic system can only be worked out when it accounts for everyday experiences (the pragmatic point of view), which proves the materialistic content of the theory. This conception indicates well that the generative principle cannot be monopolized by descriptions of metaphysical kind which have an idealistic content. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ BUDAPEST