A part outside the whole? (To Anton Zimmerling's article “Really: syntactics without semiotics?”)
... understanding of signs, while unilateral conceptions of signs are often overlooked. Linguistics is typically confined to the study of language itself, and the treatment of linguistics concerning speech (text) is often seen as a concealed branch of philology. Moreover, it remains unclear whether the distinction between language and speech pertains to linguistics or philology. This ambiguity extends to the status of linguistic pragmatics.
To address this issue constructively, it is useful ...