ABSTRACT
In Marxist linguistic theory, the teaching that language is the expression or the ideal reflection of objective reality through human consciousness. Linguistic signs are seen as the material realizations of mental images, i.e. concepts or assertions. The inquiry into the relationship between linguistic expressions and their mental counterparts is the task of semantics. ( also Marrism, materialistic language theory)
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Marrism
Subgroup of pronouns which are used when the pronoun is coreferential with the subject of the clause it is used in: Philip1 defended himself1. Reflexive pronouns are often handled as special cases of personal pronouns, since in many languages they have the same grammatical forms, particularly in the first and second persons (Fr. je me lave ‘I wash myself’ vs il me lave ‘he washes me’). There are some languages, however, where reflexivity is not expressed by pronouns but rather by verbal affixes (see Sells et al. 1987). In older forms of generative transformational grammar, reflexive pronouns are derived from a pronominalization transformation which replaces a full noun phrase with a reflexive pronoun when two elements in a text are coreferential. In more recent approaches of transformational grammar, reflexive pronouns are not handled by transformations, but rather by binding theory.
