THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF PHILOSOPHY: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES

Abstract

The following article deals with the nature of language in the philosophical context. It identifies the way of transition from positive knowledge to deep comprehension of language in a broad theoretical and methodological context, by understanding language nature more widely – as spiritual energy and cognitive activity of a person. It was reviewed that many problems and topics previously considered as “extralinguistic” have come to be interpreted as “intralinguistic” in modern linguistics. The purpose of the article was to handle the contrast between language and philosophy, clarifying the relation between them, finding out what is the “starting point” of any knowledge: language as the formation material of the world or philosophy as the initial form of human mind. In the main material, the author tries to examine this problem by analysing different periods of philosophic thought and personalities of thinkers, their main differences in the attitude to the problem of language.