Шта лична имена говоре о разлици „мушко – женско“, роду и структурној организацији језика
What do Personal Names Tell us about the “Male–Female” Distinction, Gender and the Structural Organization of Language?
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Садржај рада се може представити као трагање за логичким основама личних
имена (ЛИ), с циљем да се испита статус пола и његов однос према роду у српским ЛИ,
тип организације ЛИ и степен њихове уклопљености у језик као систем. Налази се да је
посебност ЛИ повезана с тиме што она подразумевају све унапред дате (и самознањем
одређене) категоријалне димензије: ″људско″ је унапред дата „предметна“ категорија,
лице као субјекат ЛИ је унапред категорисано као ″људскo биће″ и ″једно по себи″, и
унапред дефинисано као ‘мушко’, или ‘женско’. Све то омогућава интенционалну
творбу (одређен именоватељ и утврђен чин именовања) и условљава нарочиту структуру
и однос творбених морфема, нарочит функционални однос између чланова рода као
обликотворног средства, те и нарочит начин „значења“ и организације ЛИ.
The subject of the paper can be described as an investigation into the logical
foundations of personal names (PNs) aimed at examining the relationship between
natural gender and grammatical gender in Serbian PNs, the type of their structural
organization, and their integration into language as a system. It is found that the
specific feature of PNs has to do with the fact that they imply all predetermined (/
determined through being understood in themselves) categorial dimensions: “human”
is a predetermined category of being; “human beings” are comprehended as distinct
“beings” (″“one” in itself″); the subject of a PN is predefined as ‘male’ or ‘female’.
This enables (1) the intentional formation of PNs (a defined denominator and a
determined act of nomination) and determines (2) the specific value of the formative
and grammatical morphemes in the structure of PNs (suffixes and the grammatical
gender), including (3) peculiar types of meaning and organization, depending on
wh...ether a PN is considered to be a part of the corpus of personal names (a word
without a specific reference) or it serves as an identifier. As PNs serve the purpose of
identification, the relationship between a PN and a person as the subject of nomination
is very strong (1 : 1). In this type of denominating relation, the personal identity
dominates (a PN is repeatable, whereas the personal identity is “one” and universally
unique). Due to this, the organization of PNs as the expressions of personal identities
depends on subjects and the social networks in which they are embedded, and not
on their PNs (their meanings or interpretations read into them). It is right to say that
subjects keep PNs isolated from each other, as well as from the language system.
While following in the footsteps of Whorf and relying on Aristotle, Vigotsky,
De Saussure, etc. we demonstrate that language bears the distinction between “male”
and “female” as a relationship between two predefined complementary classes. In the
spoken language, they are variously interpreted and expressed using various types
of means – symbolic (male – female) or non-symbolic (“he” – “she”, grammatical
gender). Regardless of whether a language distinguishes the noun gender and
regardless of the way it reacts to the sex, this relationship that is understood by itself
dictates that the identity of a person be determined at the moment of naming and
classified as ‘male’ or ‘female’, which are (in the collective linguistic consciousness)
taken as two polarized classes of the same rank. The same rank of the opposites means
that there is no coordination (‘female’ ‖ ‘male’ – MAN) and that it is impossible to
elevate PNs to a general level, due to which PNs, as parts of the corpus of personal
names, form a distinct group in the language system. This explains the fact that entire
corpora of personal names may be replaced without any consequence for the language as a system, which indirectly reveals the organizational principles of the language as
a system.
The status of PNs as the units of the corpus of personal names indicates that
the organization of language does not rest on binary relations, especially not between
two units of the same rank. It has to rely on three-unit structures that can be abstracted
to the relationship DEFINED ‖ UNDEFINED – NEUTRAL. The fact that PNs are consistently
divided into male and female shows that the identity of a human being as an individual
(person and personality) cannot exist without the touch of the “forces” of ‘female’
and ‘male’. Furthermore, it also shows that the “identity” of a MAN as a human and
biological being (a being defined in terms of gender and genus) could not exist without
disregarding these forces. In other words, language would be impossible if the action
of these forces were incessant.
Keywords:
лична имена; категорија ″људско /биће/″; категоријални однос ″мушко – женско″; граматички род; моција рода; род ЛИ; поларизација; партиципација; координација; структурна организацијаSource:
Ономатолошки прилози, 2018, 24, 19-Publisher:
- Београд : Институт за српски језик САНУ
- Београд : Српска академија наука и уметности