Analogia ca formă de manifestare a creativităţii limbajului

Cu privire la concepţia lingvistică a lui Eugeniu Coşeriu

Résumé

As it was defined by Eugeniu Coşeriu, language (understood as “speech”) is a creative, free and
purposeful human activity. Language creativity – one of the universals that define language reality – is the
outcome of a creative authority’s activity, which is the speaker himself. When dealing with linguistic change,
Eugeniu Coşeriu demonstrates that this natural phenomenon, affecting the existence of any living language,
is nothing but the creative energy (Gr. energeia) that is scientifically objected and turned into “knowledge”
(Gr. dynamis), thus becoming tradition and serving as a model for future innovations. Man’s freedom of
creation is not unlimited; the existence of some linguistic tradition and patterns of expression makes the
speaker proceed analogically whenever he wants to create in his own language. Any speaker is the owner of
some knowledge of a saber (“competence”) that represents the starting point of a speech that is always new
and always to come. However, this “novelty” or originality of speech is relative, because on the one hand it
goes beyond the dynamis, and on the other hand it returns to the dynamis status, in case linguistic innovation
is adopted as a pattern (for future but analogical innovations) and turns itself into tradition. In such an
interpretation, stating that analogy represents an aspect of dynamis means that it is given a special
significance within the process of linguistic change or, better said, within the framework of language
creativity.