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Recent readings concerning discourse analysis, its aims, tasks and explicative potential support the thesis that there has been a lot of confusion around discourse analysis, especially around its subject scope. It seems that the confusion is mainly caused by lack of understanding of what it is that we refer to as "language" and how it exists. By ignoring the ontological answers concerning...
The anthropocentric theory of human languages was created as a consequence of a question posed by F. Grucza concerning, firstly, the ontological status of what expressions such as „human language(s)" apply to, i.e. a question how exists this what we call in such a way, and secondly, a question, how the so-called „acquisition of language" takes place. From the ontological point of view these...
The article discusses certain aspects of human communication viewed from the perspective of the anthropocentric language theory developed by F. Grucza. In the first part the author presents general principles of the anthropocentric language theory and explains the ontological status of language as an inherent attribute of a man. Along with two other inherent attributes of homo sapiens, i.e. its individual...
The consequence of acknowledging that language abilities are an inherent property of man is that the actual speaker/ listener has come to the foreground of linguistic deliberations and thereby the emphasis in these reflections and in the research has been shifted to what is happening in the brain as far as language processes are concerned. The last few decades, due to increasingly modern technological...
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