Kubilay Hoşgör

Language and the World of Mythos: An Investigation on the Archeology of Culture

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi July 12, 2018 Kubilay Hoşgör

In this study, I investigate Ernst Cassirer’s analysis of the mythos (or the world of mythos) by focusing on his system of symbolic forms. I adopt his conception of mythos to reveal the influence of forms of mythical consciousness on the emergence of language. To that extend, I compare language paradigms of Cassirer with Chomsky. When I argue that Chomsky’s theory has difficulty to explain the...