Organon model

The organon model is a model of communication by German psychologist and linguist Karl Ludwig Bühler (1879 – 1963). It was published in German in 1934.[1] and not translated into English until 1990.[2] In it he defined the functions of communication according to which linguistic communication can be described. Bühler's work influenced Roman Jakobson for his communication model.[3]

The organon model[1][2]

Buhler's model also apparently influenced Lev Vygotsky who, in discussing memory and goal-directed learning, wrote: "According to K. Buhler, speech thinks for us."[4]

Bühler identified the following three communicative functions:

  • the expressive function (Ausdrucksfunktion)
  • the representation function (Darstellungsfunktion)
  • the conative function (Appellfunktion, i.e. appealing function).

Background

Karl Bühler used the Kratylos of Platon as the basis for his remarks. Here, Socrates refers to the word as an Ancient Greek: Ὄργανον, meaning "instrument, tool, organ" and thus language as a whole as a tool, with which a person can communicate something to others about things. Bühler described this relationship as a 'three-foundations scheme': oneself - to the other - about things (einer - dem anderen - über die Dinge).[1]: 24 

Bühler’s organon model criticized the material thinking of behaviorism, which according to him had renewed the "flatus-vocis nominalism of the incipient Middle Ages in modern form."[1]: 27 

References
  1. Bühler, Karl (1934). Sprachtheorie. Oxford, England: Fischer.
  2. Bühler, Karl (1934/1990). The Theory of Language: The Representational Function of Language (Sprachtheorie), p. 35. Translated by Donald Fraser Goodwin. Amsterdam: John Benjamin's Publishing Company. ISSN 0168-2555.
  3. "Kommunikation im Wandel –Vergangenheit und Zukunft im Blick". www.tips.at. May 21, 2015.
  4. Vygotsky, Lev (1960). Проблема развития и распада высших психических функций [On the development and degradiation of the higher psychological functions]. pp. 449, 453.


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