TY - UNPB ID - cogprints4008 UR - http://cogprints.org/4008/ A1 - Kravchenko, Prof. A.V. TI - ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES OF LANGUAGE FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF AUTOPOIESIS Y1 - 2004/// N2 - The structuralist heritage in linguistics continues to obscure the essential properties of natural language as an empirical phenomenon. It is argued that the new framework of autopoiesis possesses a greater explanatory power, as it assumes the connotational na-ture of language. The key notions of representation, sign and signification, interpreta-tion, intentionality and communication, and reciprocal causality, approached from the autopoietic angle, allow for deeper insights into the essence of language which is as a kind of adaptive behavior of an organism involving a system constituted by signs of signs. AV - public KW - sign KW - signification KW - interpretation KW - intentionality KW - communication KW - reciprocal causality ER -