The Category of Humanity: Language as a Reflection of the Opposition between the Natural Sphere and the Human Sphere

• 作者: Enrique J.Vercher García
• 来源期刊: 语言与符号学研究
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: LINGUISTICS cognitive LINGUISTICS LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY linguoculturology natural languages LINGUISTIC categories human/non-human
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（2）
• 页码范围: 37-52
• 页数: 16页
• 分类号: H0-05

摘要

The article analyses the way in which human languages classify reality into two large categories: the natural sphere and the human sphere. Thus, a given language will use the resources of its different linguistic levels(phonetic-phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical) to configure the references of reality and classify them based on what the speaker considers as belonging to the sphere of human society or the sphere of nature, outwith the human community. The same object, animal, phenomenon, or event may be treated(and evaluated) differently depending on whether the speakers of a given language consider it as belonging to the human sphere or the natural sphere.