In the present paper, I will discuss Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of language. In the first part, I will show how Merleau-Ponty re-employed Husserl's method of phenomenological reduction (epoche). In the second part, I will focus on our main subject: Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of language. I will show that Merleau-Ponty was generally interested in the question of »how structures are transformed«, but that linguisitic communication offered him a prime example of that, since it is both apparent and approachable in a scientific manner.
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