Language Production And Language Alienation

Marx and Engels were not professional linguists; either they seldom put special and long discussions on the language problem. Their thought about language can be seen at scattered places in the works of their life. However, what they researched on the language production and alienation language has become an important content of Marxist spirit production theory and an important part of the development of linguistics and pragmatics in the nineteenth century.The philosophical premise of the development of the view of language was due to the change of the world outlook—the establishment of historical materialism. Language is produced in nature, human society and spiritual world and human appearance is an important physiological condition of language production. The interaction among people further promotes the production of language, which constitutes the material basis of language change. Language is a kind of existence itself and the performance of real life, which has a close relationship with thought, consciousness and spirit. Language is the nature of perception, and it is the direct reality of thought. Language corresponds to times community. Language and the real life interact and influence each other. As language cultural relics and culture password, dialects have rich linguistic value and cultural and social information value. The Frank dialect is the linguistic work of Engels, which analyses historical development of the Germanic dialect and constructs historical materialism method of dialect and language analysis. It provided a “language certificate” for the relationship between the two tribes in the Frank language area. Language is an important medium for people to go to the world history as the same with money.Language production is the fairy that creats spiritual history; it is the special tool that people use to affirm their own consciousness; it is the basic strength which can liberate mankind itself. However, in the development of human society, language will also deviates from the essence of the people, which leads to the occurrence of variation and corruption—language alienation. The concept of alienation, as an important philosophical concept of Hegel and Feuerbach, was used largely by Marx who applied it to the various abnormal phenomena in the political and economic life from a critical perspective. Marx clearly put forward language alienation for the first time in the book of James Mill < Principles of Political Economy > Book Abstract, which expounded that the language was marked with brand of “money worship” in the capitalist society. In addition, we can find Marx's criticism of political discourse and academic discourse in books such as the Big Man in Exile and the Po and the Rhine, which primarily provided a comprehensive and vivid display in the political life and the life of the theory,which obtained various morbid "language skills". The language of alienation is just to reflect and cater to the distorted relationship among people. If we want to expose the reasons for the alienation of language, we must understand the true state of the material social relationship between man and man. We must comprehend the original state and the whole state of alienation spirit and realize the aliasing appearance of language when people expressed their thoughts with language. Marx and Engels used the analytical method of historical materialism to explain the necessity and main reasons of language alienation, which coming to a conclusion that in order to return to the true state of language, humans should return as human beings themselves.Language can develop human beings and restrict human beings at the same time. Language has become a rope to bind people in the real life, and the alienation language is controlling the operation of the human society. Thoughts on the alienation of language of Marx and Engels are the important innovation of linguistics and pragmatics, which provides reference for later scholars who will study the alienation of language, and which has a certain relevant value for analyzing and solving contemporary complex social phenomena.