ABSTRACT
In order to round out our theoretical discussion on the genesis of symbol formation as it culminates in full-fledged linguistic representation, we shall attempt in this chapter to give a brief logico-analytic account of the nature of language as an autonomous form. In this presentation, we shall draw considerably upon the views of Karl Bühler, whose Sprachtheorie (37), we believe, presents the most advanced contemporary psychological analysis of the general structure of language as an autonomous symbolic system. 1
