DUMITRU CORNEL VÎLCU
DOI: 10.33993/dr.2022.2.119.134
Author's coordinates: Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai Facultatea de Litere
Cluj-Napoca, str. Horea, nr. 31
Email: cornel.vilcu@gmail.com
BORCILĂ
(Abstract)
This text summarizes the scientific work of the Romanian linguist and poetician Mircea Borcilă within two main fields of research: – in the domain of “integral” (Coserian) linguistics, Borcilă focuses on the philosophical and epistemological problems related to the principles of linguistics as a cultural science: language as logos semantikos, the basic characteristics (“universals”) of language (mainly creativity, semanticity and otherness) and Coseriuʼs decidedly anti-positivistic stance in the theory of language; – in the domain of poetics (more precisely, theory of metaphors), Borcilă creates his own synthesis, starting from three main conceptual sources: 1. the cognitivist approach in the anthropological poetics of Lakoff, Johnson, Turner and the like; 2. Eugenio Coseriuʼs text linguistics and his treatment of the metaphorical creation in language(s); 3. Lucian Blagaʼs definition of two essentially different types of metaphors, that is a) linguistic/ “plasticizing” vs. b) poetic/“revelatory”.
Cuvinte-cheie: paradigme ale lingvisticii, teorie a limbajului, filosofie a limbajului, lingvistică integrală, poetică antropologică, metaforologie, metaforă plasticizantă, metaforă revelatorie.
Keywords: linguistic schools, theory of language, philosophy of language, general linguistics, anthropological poetics, theory of metaphor(s), plasticizing metaphor, revelatory metaphor.