评伽达默尔的语言观

Comment on Gadamer's Conception of Language

伽达默尔的语言观与工具主义的语言观是对立的。他认为语词的构成不是反思的,而是经验的产物。语言是被创造出来适合世界的。因此是世界而不是我们的主观性决定语言。在他看来,世界应被看作是处于人们之间的东西。它是人们之间的共有的理解和理解的中介,使世界成为可能的是语言。语言作为相互作用的领域,并不真正是一件构成理解的工具。伽达默尔还认为语言是理解的普遍媒介,语言即是理解,即是存在的模式,正是语言揭示了世界。人由于语言而拥有世界并生活于世界之中。我们只能通过语言来理解存在,理解世界。世界必须进入语言,才能表现为我们的世界。

Gadamer believes that language of form and content are inseparable,he opposed the tools of language. He considered language is not a reflection on the word,but a product of experience. Language was created for the world,not for our subjective decision.In his view,the world should be viewed as something between people. It is the shared understanding between people and understanding of the medium,and language makes the world possible. Language as areas of interaction,is not really a form understood ＂ Tools＂. Gadamer also believes that language is a universal medium of understanding,language that is understood,that is,models,it is language reveals the world. People have the world for language and live in the world. We can only be understood through language,understanding of the world. The world must enter the languages,can be expressed in our world.