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On Gadamer Explains The Language Concept Of Aesthetic Connotation

Posted on:2007-12-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360182497242Subject:Literature and art
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Gadamer's original theory system of Philosophical hermeneuticsopened the brand-new domain for contemporary Philosophy.And it providebrand-new method and filed of vision for Aesthetics and Literary theoryresearch. Hermeneutics contains Gadamer's Aesthetics thought that areontology of artistic works,view on understanding,view on meaning and viewon language.Language is the core problem of Gadamer's thoughts.Linguistics turn is regarded as the most significant Philosophicalevent in the 20th century.It is the overall characteristic of contemporaryphilosophy. Multitudinous schools of philosophy began to focus attentionon language. The language became the center of kinds of ideological trends.Language is never a general question of tradition but is universalfoundation of human domain.This thesis launches the elaboration under above two backgrounds.Atpresent,the researth on this is not rich. View on language of Gadamer'sHermeneutics is esthetic or poetic.This is a description to itsnature.This thesis systematically elaborates Philosophical connotationand attempts to carry on deep discussion to Aesthetic connotation. Thisarticle elaborates the mentality and key is as follows:1.Introduction. Language is the important problem he pondered in hislifetime.His view on language of Gadamer's hermeneutics belongs to theesthetic or poetic linguistic tradition.2.Philosophical connotation of view on language of Gadamer'sHermeneutics.First,language occupies the central position in PhilosophicalHermeneutics.And language is the origin of Hermeneuticsproblems.Language deeply is rooted in the experience of human being andhas the function of ontology.Next,he has criticized instrumentalism and symbol view onlanguage.Language is never a tool that is used up then discarded but akind of Being.Finally,Being that can be undersdood is language is the centralproposition and conclusion of Gadamer's view on language. Thisproposition contains:language and understanding/interpreting,languageand world/Being,language and tradition/history,language has thespeculation structure.3.Aesthetic connotation of view on language of Gadamer'sHermeneutics. Gadamer excavates the primary poetic function of language.He caused the language to break through the frame of the grammar,the wordand the sentence. He restored the life and worldwide basis of language,restored its bright vitality and creativity.(1)Dialogue nature of language.Gadamer emphasizes conversation,that is question-answer logic.Andthen he emphasizes the relation of lisening and speaking.Languagepromulgates a intersubjectivity. When a conversation starts, we have beeninvolved in the dialogue activity. The dialogue process is the infinitecyclic process which carries on.He has pointed out the nature in languageunderstanding.Language doesn't indicate our familiar world as a toolwhich already exists but in order to understand how the world associateswith us. The world and the mind form to be harmonious dialogue in theartistic language.(2)Speculation structure of language.Gadamer relates speculation andBeing.In his opinion,the poetry language passes more directly to thedivine nature and humanity's existence in all artistic languages.Thepoetry doesn't describe the reality, but reappears humanity's picturethrough the language medium.Speculation structure of language refers to the relation of speakingand silence.The essence of the word does not lie that it is expressedcompletely,but lie that has not been said. Word and the hideawayingredient has the answer or the suggestion relation.Artistic language is far away form the general knowledge and familiarlife. Artistic language has the novel existence way and expression way.Familiarity and novelty constitute the intrinsic tensity of artisticworks and then obtained profound speculation nature.4. Appraisal.View on language of Gadamer's Hermeneutics restores thehumanistic characteristic,sociality, openness, proliferation ofmeaning of language system.This causes it to be on the way fromconstructive Aesthetics to deconstructive Aesthetics.But he has not beenable to go out of the intrinsic of language,and is criticized as idealismof language.This is very significant for our current language research.Languagenot only is a tool that we communicate with each other,but also is a worldoutlook and pattern of existence. We no longer only emphasize thesubjectivity's understanding function of language,but pay attention toontology significance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Philosophical hermeneutics, View on language, Understanding, Being, Dialogue nature of language, Speculation structure of language
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