Exaktheit – Eindeutigkeit – Eigentlichkeit. Zur semiotischen Explikation terminologischer Grundeigenschaften

Abstract

Summary. The terminological properties of exactness, uniqueness and authenticity can be related to each other on the basis of Ogden and Richard’s semiotic triangle. With respect to meaning, expression, and reality they have to be understood as referential, semantic, and motivated comprehensibility of terms. They are conceptualized in diffe­rent ways within the framework of an inventory model in the tradition of system-orien­ted linguistics, a context model in the tradition of pragmalinguistics, and a functional model in the tradition of cognitive linguistics. Exactness, uniqueness and authenticity are systematically postulated, pragmatically analyzed, or cognitively interpreted. Argu­mentatively and historically, the approach demonstrates a dialectical relationship bet­ween the three models.