クオリアの言及不可能性について

Abstract

I am supposed to be able to speak on my senses. However, given that my current language was originally imposed on me by others, it is not plausible that I can use that language in a discourse about my senses. In my opinion, communicating in that language with others on the one hand, and talking about this pain of mine on the other, comprise a serious contradiction. My monologue has similarlities with Hitoshi Nagai’s theory of 〈I〉 regarding conversations with others. This is one solution to the said contradiction. However, in this paper, I explores a solution other than Nagai’s. In the “theory of language manners” presented in this paper, language is viewed as being exclusively used for communication, and my senses are not actually articulated in this language.To prove this, this paper begins by discussing how language acquisition takes place. However, it is not the purpose of this paper to describe the actual stages of human language development – these stages are only cited due to theoretical requirements. The purpose here is to situate my and Nagai’s theories within respective stages of language acquisition. There must have been a stage when this language I use was still perceived as “the language of others.” This paper argues that language acquisition takes place in at least two stages: the stage in which the language I am currently using is still perceived as “others’ language, ” and the stage in which I come to treat that language as “my language.” Nagai’s theory of〈 I〉 is a linguistic behavior found in the second stage of language acquisition, while the language used as manners, as advocated in this paper, is a linguistic behavior found in the first stage of language acquisition. According to the “theory of language manners, ” the utterance “red” is not intended to report this sense of mine, but should be uttered in a suitable situation. While Nagai’s theory holds that the conversation is a monologue, this linguistic theory shows that it is impossible to refer to qualia.