Signata (Dec 2013)
Intersémiotique et langues naturelles
Abstract
In a more direct observation, natural languages appear as syntactical organizations with different semiotic units (words, grammatical morphemes, phrases…) belonging to different categories, but they are complex semiotic systems involving also metalinguistic processes of enunciation, interpretation, paraphrase, understanding, production described inside of an intersemiotic architecture. At the crossroad of a semiotic study of language (taken in account by, S.K. Shaumyan in a Semiotic Theory of Language, 1987) and the approach of cognitive grammars (for instance by B. Pottier in Europe or R. Langacker in USA), the model, called Grammar Applicative and Cognitive of Enunciative operations — GRACE — is presented in this article. This model is unfolding an intersemiotic architecture involving different types and metalinguistic levels of semiotic representations (morphological, syntactical, grammatical, enunciative, semantical, pragmatical, cognitive…); these levels are linked between them by intermediate representation changes, in analogy with compiling processes used in computer science for high level programming languages. Then generalized principle gives an unified framework in order, in one side, to explain how semiotic representations (linguistic, metalinguistic, cognitive, symbolic, iconic…) can be articulated between them, and, in an other side, to discuss how high level representations (cognitive and language representations generated in the Mind) can be connected to the neurobiologic structures of the Brain which bears and transforms them. The symbolic or iconic metalinguistic systems are interpreted (and glossed) by metalinguistic utterances of a metalanguage µ0(LN) considered as a part of a natural Language LN (an internal metalanguage; in French: “une métalangue”). In another way, in order to become more operational with sound foundations, an interpretative gloss of this internal metalanguage must be translated in form of a metalinguistic symbolic (or iconic) representation of a formal metalanguage, built from theoretical principles and clear hypotheses. Thus, a natural language LN, a metalanguistic part µ0(LN) of LN and different metalinguistic systems µi(LN) of different interconnected levels are inserted in a computational and cognitive architecture, like GRACE. We discuss this architecture in the article.
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