We use the term image of language introduced by Yu. S. Stepanov
to analyze the works by N. D. Arutiunova the founder of “Logical analysis
of language” in Russia. Various images of language are opposed in Logical
analysis of language to strict terminological usage of this word. The most frequent
images are language as agens, language as patiens, language as space,
language as surface, language as way of speaking. These images are very different
from those that emerge in everyday speech, they are a distinctive stylistic
feature of Arutiunova’s works and also a reflection of a very peculiar way
of thinking. The flexibility of images of language in 30 years history of work
of “Logical analysis of language” in Russia has been the key to productive cooperation
between scholars representing different approaches in linguistics.
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