THE WORD AS A SIGN-SYMBOL IN THE LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE – A PROGRAM FOR TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24919/2522-4565.2023.54.3Keywords:
consciousness, diachronic semantic reconstruction, mental image, mind, panchrony, sign-symbolic nature of the word, worldviewAbstract
This paper outlines a program for transdisciplinary research addressing the problem of the sign-symbolic nature of the word as an element of the linguistic worldview that shows the properties of evolutionary dynamics. The research traverses the domains of comparative linguistics, cognitive linguistics, cognitive translation studies, semiotics, psychology, and philosophy of mind, and uses (proto-)language data as it aims to reconstruct the structures of the archaic and modern consciousness of man, and to expose the interrelations that these structures develop diachronically and maintain synchronically, with the understanding that these interrelations trigger the panchronic mechanisms of construal for particular linguistic worldviews that become formative for distinct national cultures. The authorial theory of image-driven interpretations of words of language forms in this research the basis for the methodology of diachronic semantic reconstruction suited to analyzing words as sign-symbols. Analysis of this kind exposes and explains the various and unique ways of seeing and understanding the world by the speakers of different languages. The author particularizes word interpretation in terms of a creative act of giving a meaning to a verbal sign and, vice versa, of manifesting a meaning via a verbal sign, whereby a mental image as a symbol is converted to the meaning of a word as a sign, and back; this act is enabled by the mind’s representational content owing to the peculiar embodiment of the human species. This word-image-word conversion is constitutive for the sign-symbolic nature of the word, and is actuated by a (neuro)physiological mechanism in the human makeup that is panchronic. The theory of image-driven interpretations of words serves in the course of the research to further elaborate the theoretical concepts of word inner form, of etymological interpretation, of diachronic semantic reconstruction, of diachronic depth, of diachronic variation, of semiotic passportization, of transformational generative semantics, and of metalanguage that have so far been proposed by scholars working in the domains.
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