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Naturalism vs. Conventionalism
I. Naturalism and Conventionalism
At the very beginning of the existence of the linguistics, the problem of the origin of language and the meaning of language came into being. ... As far as the history of linguistics is concerned, in the ancient Greece, Plato¡¯s dialogue the Cratylus has a clear and narrowly linguistic subject matter, specifically, the debate between conventionalism and naturalism in the theory of meaning. ... Naturalism
Because of the great influence of religion, the naturalism is more fully presented, with divine origin being invoked in support. ... But it is unfortunate that all other cases of children who have been discovered living in isolation, without coming into contact with human speech, tend not to confirm the ¡°divine-source¡± which the naturalism school holds. ... Conventionalism
Plato¡¯s student Aristotle did not dance to his teacher¡¯s tune. ... However, there are also exceptions of conventionalism. ... Someone believes that t he natural vs. ... someone believes that in the level of lexicon, language is more conventional; whereas in the level of syntax , language shows more naturalism traits, since the structure of the most sentence written by various language do not vary very much.
Approximate Word count = 894
Approximate Pages = 3.6
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