Actes de pensée et actes linguistiques dans la grammaire générale

Abstract

ABSTRACT : In so far as general grammar belongs to the class of language-translation theories, it does not have a semantic theory that enables it to define enunciative phenomena. However, it has made possible various analyses of the phenomena, either by referring to acts of thought (Port-Royal), or by using the indication of the act of speech (Beauzée), or by reducing the assertion to the linguistic act of pronunciation (Condillac). But, because it is unable to conceive self-reference, it cannot define the concept of performaticity.