A part outside the whole? (To Anton Zimmerling's article “Really: syntactics without semiotics?”)
... speech pertains to linguistics or philology. This ambiguity extends to the status of linguistic pragmatics.
To address this issue constructively, it is useful to differentiate between five concepts encompassing language and speech: hermeneutics, philology, linguistics, semiotics, and pragmalinguistics. Each of these concepts delineates a specific ontology and corresponding methodological approach. By considering them as orthogonal axes within a fan matrix, one can identify 25 possible approaches ...
