Die Heimat der Sprache. Eine Untersuchung der praktischen Form der Rede im Anschluss an Georg Misch
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What happens when language not only says something but also does something? This dissertation develops, following Georg Misch, a theory of linguistic articulation that understands language not merely as a means of representation but as a form of action. At its core is a systematic distinction between theoretical and practical speech — two different ways of speaking that rest on their own distinct forms of knowledge.
While theoretical speech aims at explication, delimitation, and conceptual determination, this work pursues the concept of a practical form of speech, in which knowledge is produced in the linguistic performance itself. This knowledge is not merely accompanying the action but is the action itself — bound to situations, speaking subjects, and the form of its articulation. It eludes the obligation of logical justification and only becomes accessible in the way it is linguistically performed.
The starting point is a theory of elemental forms of knowledge that traces the transition from pre-linguistic expression to linguistically mediated meaning. On this basis, the work develops an analysis of general features of speech — expression, reference, meaning, representation — from which the distinction between two forms of speech can be systematically justified: one that designates and fixes, and one that produces, establishes, and transforms. Practical sentences appear in this context as actions in the form of sentences — linguistic acts in which reality only comes into effect.
This difference becomes particularly clear in speech about “Heimat.” Where the object resists theoretical determination without losing its linguistic efficacy, conventional models reach their limits. The work shows that such phenomena should not be dismissed as conceptually vague but open an access to that form of knowledge which is produced in practical speech — in a way in which meaning is not asserted but emerges.
Thus, the work reveals a fundamental structure of the philosophy of language that goes beyond representational or instrumental models. It makes understandable how certain objects — which resist theoretical capture — are only experienceable as figures of meaning that find their place in the practical form of speech — in the language in which they are at home.
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Created: 2025Issued: 2025-08-11Updated: 2025-08-11
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Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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Philosophy of Language Hermeneutics Georg Misch Speech Forms Speech Acts Linguistic Performance Practical Knowledge Knowledge and Language Linguistic Knowledge Meaning Formation Forms of Knowledge Language and ActionPraktische Sätze Theoretische Sätze Diskursive Rede Evozierende Rede praktische Rede theoretische Rede Heimat
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Sprachphilosophie Hermeneutik Georg Misch Redeformen Sprachhandlungen Sprachlicher Vollzug praktisches Wissen Wissen und Sprache
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Bremecker, Naemi: Die Heimat der Sprache. Eine Untersuchung der praktischen Form der Rede im Anschluss an Georg Misch. : Philipps-Universität Marburg 2025-08-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/z2025.0516.