Language as carrier of consciousness
Publisher: Lund University, Sweden
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Lund, Sweden
Language: eng
Format: Paper
Number of pages: 21
Description: The purpose of the discussion in this article is to give an evolutionary background to a method developed for the analysis of language seen as expression of intention and morality. The method is named “Perspective Text Analysis”. This name indicates that beyond the physical dimension of a text there is a metaphysical one, which can be discovered by a formal mechanism. The cue component of this mechanism is the Agent, which controls the perspective of the text. It has developed as a consequence of the evolutionary shift from object (culture) as governor to mentality as governor of human action. It is argued that controlling the Agent in a text analysis is the only possible way of controlling consciousness. The main point put forward is that consciousness is bound to syntax. It follows that lexically carried linguistic information cannot be used for intentionally based text analyses.
Table of contents: title: Language as Carrier of Consciousness  3; title: The Objective Imperative   4; title: The mental perspective  14; title: The textual Agent  17; title: Perspective Text Analysis  19; title: References  20