13. Onomatopoetic Language

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xiii
4. Editor's Introduction - Karl Bühler: Sematologist xlix
5. Translator's Preface lxxxi
6. KARL BUHLER: THEORY OF LANGUAGE: The representational function of language
7. Preface lxxxix
8. Introduction: Theory of Language Yesterday and Today 1
9. I. The Principles of Language Research
10. 1. The Idea and Plan of the Axiomatics 17
11. 2. The Model of Language as Organon (A) 30
12. 3. The Significative Nature of Language (B) 40
13. 4. Speech Action and Language Work; Speech Act and Language Structure (C) 57
14. 5. Word and Sentence. The S-F-System of the Type Language (D) 81
15. II. The Deictic Field of Language and Deictic Words: Introduction
16. 6. The Psychological Foundations of the Modes of Positional: Deixis in Indo-European 97
17. 7. The Origin of the Deictic Field and its Mark 117
18. 8. Imagination-Oriented Deixis and the Anaphoric Use of Deictic Words 137
19. 9. Egocentric and Topomnestic Deixis in Various Languages 158
20. III. The Symbolic Field of Language and the Naming Words: The programme
21. 10. The Sympractical, the SYDlphysical and the Synsemantic Field of Language Signs 175
22. 11. Context and Field Factors in Detail 190
23. 12. Symbolic Fields in Non-Linguistic Representative Implements 203
24. 13. Onomatopoetic Language 220
25. 14. The Conceptual Signs of Language 242
26. 15. The Indo-European Case System as an Example of a Field Implement 265
27. 16. A Critical Review 282
28. IV. The Make-up of Human Speech: Elements and Compositions: Introduction
29. 17. The Materially Determined Formation of the Acoustic Stream of Speech 294
30. 18. The Sound Shape and the Itemized Phonematic Description of Words 309
31. 19. The Simple and the Complex Word. The Characteristics of the Concept of the Word 329
32. 20. The Functions of the Article 345
33. 21. The Summative And 359
34. 22. Language Theoretical Studies on the Compound 365
35. 23. The Metaphor in Language 391
36. 24. The Problem of the Sentence 407
37. 25. The Sentence without a Deictic Field 418
38. 26. The Anaphora 438
39. 27. The Formal World of the Compound Sentence (a Sketch) 452
40. Bibliography 475
41. Glossary 486
42. Index of names 492
43. Index of topics 496
44. Postscript 509