Abstrakt: | Theories of discursive integration form a group of theories that see the principles
responsible for the integration of experience data (apperception) in the practices and
schemes of discourse. These theories indicate that the use of language unites and organizes
experience data. Their main assumption can be expressed as follows: this integration
does not inhere in objects and cannot be derived from them; hence this integration cannot
be secondarily expressed in language, but results exclusively from the use of language
(or discourse). In this article, Witold Marzęda gives an overview of narrativist theories,
script theories, Gazzaniga and Dennett’s models, which refer to evolutionary psychology,
and the theories of Lakoff and Johnson – all these being theories of discursive integration.
Marzęda’s main objective is to formulate a paradox, which consists in a trap of self-referentiality
into which these theories fall: they postulate some general properties of discourse,
which, firstly, do not have to become at once the properties of individual models and which,
secondly, do not admit of falsification. |