Language, Values, and Ideology in Complex Human Societies

Abstract

Using language requires simultaneously verifying communication and the linguistic message of the speaker. There is, therefore, an emphasis on understanding, which is contained in the linguistic message. Understanding goes beyond what is said, and includes the immediate connotations, that is, semantics in the strict sense. Language must, therefore, be interpreted, though it is indeed transferred by the immediate meanings of the linguistic code. In the present article, the authors approached some of these issues from the point of view of the hermeneutics of spoken or written language, as a double proposal (ostensive and estimative) of the subject in relation to his/her reality.