Article

Name: Avant toute chose… Linguopragmatic Beginnings and Ends

Authors: Mikhail V. Ilyin

Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract:

The article capitalizes the poetic clues by Paul Verlaine and Alexander Blok on emergence and attainment of poetry, human life and the universal self-accomplish-ment. It elaborates on the logic of universal evolution proposed by Terrence Deacon. The author resorts unto Stepanov's cumulative semiotic resolution: Language-1, Language-2, Language-3. Following Floyd Merrell and Jerzy Peltz, the author proposes to transform the three-level model of formalized semiotics of discrete signs into continuously unfolding manifolds of semiosis or uninterrupted meaning-making. The possibilities of such a turn are provided by ongoing efforts to study languaging and translanguaging.

Keywords: practices and pragmatics, genesis’ beginnings and ends, plans of content and expression, Language-1, Language-2, Language-3, semiotics and semiosics, languaging and translanguaging

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