LIMBILE ARTIFICIALE ŞI RAŢIONALIZAREA COMUNICĂRII
Artificial Languages and the Rationalization of Communication

Summary/Abstract: The term "artificial languages/artificial languages" indicates that these languages are distinguished from natural languages only by their socio-historical conditions of emergence. Thus, while natural languages develop spontaneously within human communities, artificial languages are most often developed by individuals before any utterance. Designers (Conlangers) of artificial languages dictate norms before use, whereas the use of natural languages precedes their normative codification. These socio-historical conditions do not shed any light on the nature of the languages in question: does the development, outside the context of use, of a lexicon and a set of rules of operation allow artificial languages to count as languages? Some researchers do not recognize them as languages, but a kind of linguistic ersatz (linguistic substitute). An analysis of artificial languages from a functional perspective, not just a genetic one, could not ensure that, being planned and built by a single person or a small group of persons, they are virtual languages. And as long as such a constructed language has not experienced a stage of historical development, it continues to remain only a virtual language awaiting the emergence of a community that, after assimilating it, will begin to speak it. They begin to develop through the collective contribution of all members of the community and resemble a natural language in its evolution. But, since it is not spoken in a certain country or region, but is dispersed all over the world, this language is not an authentic vernacular, indigenous, specific to a country, a region, but serves as a human communication tool like a language natural.

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