The Value of Language: Rhetoric, Semiology, Philology and Functional Approach

Abstract

The chapter is focused on the problem of value in Classical rhetoric (Aristotle, Quintilian), humanistic and romantic philology (Lorenzo Valla, Friedrich Schlegel), semiology (Ferdinand de Saussure) and functional approach of Vilém Mathesius, one of the founders of Prague Structuralism

Keywords

• Value
• Language
• Rhetoric
• Semiology
• Philology
• Functional Approach