- 22 May: Round table “Principii coșeriene în lingvistica locutorului“
- 13 November: Round table “Cunoaștere și discurs“. Report in press here.
The reading room on the ground floor of the USV Library hosted on Thursday, May 22, 2014, the thematic round table entitled „Principiile coșeriene în lingvistica locutorului”, organized by prof.univ.dr. Sanda-Maria Ardeleanu, lector univ. dr. Ioana-Crina Coroi and lector univ. dr. Nicoleta Moroșan. The event was attended by university professors, members of the Discourse Analysis Research Center (CADISS) of the Faculty of Letters and Communication Sciences, students, master’s and doctoral students.
The concept of speaker linguistics (Ll) emerged in the metalanguage of language sciences with the centering of analyses on the firm relation between language/language and speaker (or speaker). This orientation in analyzing language/language has often been contested by representatives of the classical current in linguistic research. Returning to the concepts, fundamental principles, but also to the authors established as names of reference in various linguistic currents and schools, the organizers set out to demonstrate that the origins of Ll can be found in studies that are at the foundation of Linguistics.
Eugeniu Coșeriu, the Romanian-born scholar and founder of integral linguistics, offers in his texts the ideas that have inspired linguistic research in the direction of identifying the relationship between language and speaker:
1.”If we say “The speaker is Peter”, we have also identified the individual level of language (Lecții de lingvistică generală, 2000, Editura ARC, Chișinău). It should be remembered that, according to Coșeriu, the other levels of language are: the universal level and the historical level.
2. At the individual level, language as an activity is the discourse, i.e. the linguistic act (or series of related linguistic acts) of a given individual in a given situation; in terms of competence, it is expressive competence (knowledge about the elaboration of “discourses”); and as a product it is a “text” (spoken or written)” (idem, p.234)
3. “… language does not “impose itself” on the individual (as is sometimes asserted): the individual has it at his or her disposal in order to manifest his or her expressive freedom. And this freedom is almost unlimited at the level of the text, where meanings, and therefore not meanings, can be and are always new” (idem, p.250).
The discussion of some of the principles of coșerian linguistics that have been a (possible) starting point for a Ll will continue with the discussion of the elements that define the “integral direction” in linguistics and language teaching.
CADISS aims to re-evaluate the state of research in the field of Discourse Analysis (DA) from the perspective of the Ll and the linguists who pioneered linguistic schools and trends (Saussure, Hjlemslev, Martinet, Bloomfield, Benveniste, Ducrot, Maingueneau, Houdebine, van Dyck, Barthes, Jakobson, Greimas, Peirce, etc.)