Lectures
Aestheticalism Lectures
Here are my lectures on Aestheticalism - my own linguistics theories based on glossopoeia.
Aestheticalism Lectures
1 - Introduction
In this introduction, I lay foundations for an Aestheticalist approach to languages. I discuss the main focuses of modern linguistics and how they fail to answer some of the important questions about languages. I propose how Aestheticalism can be a complementary approach to understanding the full linguistic mystery. |
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2 - Languages As Essence
In this lecture, we develop the philosophical foundations for Aestheticalism. We examine the essence of the Self and of society and look at how language pertains to our existence. We also look at how language evolution is intimately related to culture and mentality. |
3 - Origin of Languages
In this lecture, we tackle the main assumptions surrounding the raison d’être for language. We examine the Communication Assumption and why it does not account for the existence of language. We then go on to explain how a language is constructed between two people using shared aesthetics and why we have linguistic diversity in the first place. |
4 - Phonology and Word-Form
In this lecture, we examine how Aestheticalism regard phonology. We talk about Element Theory and phonetic symbolism, defining the phonosemantic-phonoaesthetic spectrum for language. We also analyse the importance of the word-form and how it is shaped by changing aesthetics through time. We end through an analysis of the idea of particular sharedness through aesthetics. |
5 - Aesthetics in Grammar
In this lecture, we have a look at the essence of grammar as having been influenced through shared commonality in human psychology and divergences where there have been divergences. We examine how morpheme theory does not stand up to fusional analysis and why a non-fusional language might choose that way of grammaticalisation. |