EDITORIAL: PROBLEMS OF LANGUAGE: MECHANISMS AND PURPOSES IN DISCURSIVE USES

Abstract

Language, like the Library of Babel imagined by Borges, is "so enormous that any reduction of human origin is infinitesimal" (Borges, 1941, p. 3). However, linguistic studies rigorously follow theoretical-practical paths that illustrate how the human mind categorizes, how it thinks and how it works. For example, today it is understood that the imperfect uses made by the speakers are not errors or arbitrary, they are manifestations of the language that respond to an internal logic that has become necessary to reveal.