Anton Marty & Karl Bühler: Between mind and language – Zwischen Denken und Sprache – Entre pensée et langage

Transcendentalistic Definition Of Communication Components

“…Appearing in the era of the confrontation between idealism in the form of phenomenology and materialism in the form of behaviorism, Bühller's (1934) communication model rejects language as a communicative code from the addressee and addresser, depriving it of psychology and metaphysics, which were indicators of the unscientific for phenomenologists and behaviorists, and puts the language code in no less metaphysical place, outside the participants of communication. As a result, Bühller (1934) obtained a three-part communication model in which 1) the addressee, 2) the addresser and 3) the code (together with objects and situations) act as equal factors in communication presented as an unrecognized and therefore elusive process between the three (as cited in Raynaud, 2016). Jakobson (1960) picked up this idea.…”