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The Analysis of Language According to Carl Svedelius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Olli Kuure
Olli Kuure
Affiliation:
Department of Nordic Languages, University of Oulu, Box 191, 90101 Oulu, Finland.
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Abstract

The work of a Swedish linguist, Carl Svedelius (1861–1951), though fairly brief and unaccomplished as it was, deserves a closer look from the point of view of today's linguistics. Svedelius himself characterized his own approach with the term “den verklighetsbetonade eller funktionalistiska språ;kanalysen”-i.e. he emphasized the referential or “real” and functional dimensions of language. Thus, the object of study should be “det sammanhängande språ;ket”, language as a whole. The basic unit in the comprehensive study of language is “une communication”, in modern terms, an utterance. Svedelius distinguishes two main categories of utterances: Utterances of process describe different events in life, whereas utterances of relation classify and describe different phenomena in reality.

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , June 1990 , pp. 49 - 66
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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