A Reflection on Kristeva's Approach to the Structure of 'Language'

چکیده مقاله

Archive of SID
University of Tabriz-Iran
Philosophical Investigations
Vol. 11/ No. 21/ Fall & Winter 2017
A Reflection on Kristeva's Approach to the Structure of
'Language'*
Vahid NejadMohammad**
Assistant Professor, University of Tabriz (corresponding author)
Mahmoud Soufiani
Assistant Professor, University of Tabriz
Masoud Yaghoubi Notash
Assistant Professor, University of Tabriz
Abstract
Reaching out to history and subject in terms of meaning variation, Kristeva
could show that language cannot simply be a Saussurean sign system.
Rather, she went on to delineate that language, beyond signs, is associated
with a dynamic system of signification where the 'speaking subject' is
constantly involved in processing. Julia Kristeva, a French critic,
psychoanalyst, theoretician, a post-structuralist philosopher of Hungarian
origin, dwells upon ideas from linguistics, psychoanalysis, sociology while
representing text analysis, sign and subject from emotional and motivational
perspectives. She believes that processing language structure and subject
depend upon semiotic and symbolic domains that emerge in the scope of
'signifiance' process whereby the semiotic domain processes and primary
structures against the symbolic realm. In Kristeva's view, the sign Chora,
while being the milieu for energy, dynamism, and motility, shows the
internal and signification drives of the language, and will involve changes in
signification mutation of subjectivity.