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The concept of "spirit of the people" is one of the key concepts that Humboldt
introduced: it is a certain quantity, knowledge about which is extracted from the
language, while language is not only a means for comprehending it, but also a
factor that creates it. Humboldt divides humanity into peoples not according to
biological characteristics, but according to language. One of Humboldt's key ideas
is that different languages are not so much different designations of the world
around them, but different visions of this world. Each language is characterized by
a definite, inherent only semantic division; therefore, it is the semantics of the
language in which we speak, which serves as a kind of reference point in our ideas
about things and phenomena of the surrounding reality. Mastering the native
language at a very early age, long before osoz knowledge of reality, a person learns
the very method of "handling" objects and phenomena of reality, which is
"imposed" on him by the corresponding language. The internal form of the
language fixes the peculiarities of the national worldview, the internal form is that
purely individual way by which every nation is able to express its thoughts and
feelings in language.
Another of the most important theses of Humboldt is that language is not a product
of human activity, a finished thing, ergon (Ergon), but activity itself - energy
(Energeia), a living activity of the human spirit, the spirit of the people. Language
is the force that makes a person human. Different languages are a reflection of
some initial linguistic ability that was inherent in a person and which is actualized
with the help of speaking itself, with the help of the speaker's activity. At the same
time, a person who "awakens" this linguistic ability in himself and "activates" it
during linguistic communication creates a language every time.
3. How did Charles Darwin's ideas influence the development of linguistics in the
century?
5. How can you determine the place of the logical-grammatical direction in the
history of the science of language?
Coming from Aristotle and the Grammar of Port Royal, it survived and continued
to develop in the 19th century. The founder of the logical-grammatical school is
Karl Becker (1775-1849), who continued the traditions of the Port-Royal
Grammar.
If psychology is the science of the spirit in general, then the psychology of the
people is the science of the national spirit. The spirit of the people is what makes
the scattered multitude of individuals one nation. Living together and the
associated impressions, feelings and desires lead to similar thoughts and a similar
language. The largest representatives of this trend were the German psychologist
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) and outstanding Russian philosopher and literary
historian, folklorist and dialectologist, ethnographer and linguist Alexander
Afanasyevich Potebnya (1835–1891).