On naming two theories can be found in the philosophy of language research field,descriptive theory and historical casual theory.For the former,characteristics of social entities are fundamentally fore-grounded in the...On naming two theories can be found in the philosophy of language research field,descriptive theory and historical casual theory.For the former,characteristics of social entities are fundamentally fore-grounded in the process of naming,for the latter social context changes taken into account.Social contexts exert the same influence on the initial naming and the renaming of social entities over time with the same mechanism,conforming to certain social conventions and filtering the unwanted and presenting the value-added judgments.Both the naming and renaming of objects involve the judgments given to the entities in society.Hereby it is safe to say that under no case shall language use be value-free and that name variants mirror social contexts developments.展开更多
基金Science and Technology Innovation Fund of Nanjing Forestry University(X09-102-1)2011 Annual University Guidance Program of Philosophy and Social Science from Jiangsu Provincial Education Department(2011SJD740019)
文摘On naming two theories can be found in the philosophy of language research field,descriptive theory and historical casual theory.For the former,characteristics of social entities are fundamentally fore-grounded in the process of naming,for the latter social context changes taken into account.Social contexts exert the same influence on the initial naming and the renaming of social entities over time with the same mechanism,conforming to certain social conventions and filtering the unwanted and presenting the value-added judgments.Both the naming and renaming of objects involve the judgments given to the entities in society.Hereby it is safe to say that under no case shall language use be value-free and that name variants mirror social contexts developments.