FILOZOFIJA I LINGVISTIKA (prilog pitanju o njihovom odnosu)
PHILOSOPHY AND LINGUISTICS

Summary/Abstract: The relation of philosophy and lingiustics has a long history in which their own traits here altered as well as their relation in reference to those alternations. They are both connected to the basic human act, to the basic form of human expression and the form of existence: to language. Language is the basic fact from which the following questions emerge: What is language and what does it express? What is being communicated through language? Does language proclaim a certain universal law? How does it function? What does it consist of and how is its function realised? Thus originated philosophy and comprehension of language were not differentiated. When the difference emerged in Aristotle, in the first place, philosophy developed as a science on the Being and grammar as a science on »language usage according to the best models« which is to become a »grammatic skill«, from which filology and at last linguistics developed. As philosophy itself developed as a science whose task is to study man's existence realized in the speech (language), whose key to its secret is none other than language, so philosophy and linguistics found themselvese in a new and productive relation. Both sciences study human activities in creating the world and the sense that is expressed through language. So the theme of language is the fundamental theme of philosophy and linguistics. Their relation is the relation of new content and new possibilities.

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