Anton Mary & Karl Bühler

Intentional speech is a special kind of action whose real ultimate goal is to evoke certain psychic phenomena in other beings. Anton Marty In recent years, research has shown a growing interest in the Austro-German philosophy arising from the works of Bernard Bolzano and Franz Brentano. Anton Marty (1847-1914) and Karl Bühler (1879-1963) are two key figures in this tradition. Their contributions in the field of philosophy of language, psychology, and linguistics have had a profound impact on the development of these disciplines. Nevertheless, both thinkers have remained mostly in the background of research until today, so that little attention has been paid to them compared to Brentano, Husserl, or Wittgenstein. In the present volume, the philosophies of language of these two authors are examined in more detail, and their relationship to each other and to later traditions - such as those of analytic philosophy and cognitive pragmatics - is illuminated. At the heart of these studies is the question of the relationship between thought and language, a relationship that is at once the common denominator and the dividing point of Marty's and Bühler's thought. Both thinkers agree that thought and language are intimately connected. However, their opinions diverge when it comes to defining the role of thought more precisely. While Marty sees the main function of language (meaning) in awakening certain psychic phenomena in the other, for Bühler the essence of language consists in its representational function, in the objective coordination of language means with things and facts. Bühler develops his organon model of language, which has become famous, on the basis of and in distinction from Martyss's Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung der allgemeinen Grammatik und Sprachphilosophie, published in 1908, to which he devotes a detailed review. While a.