The Structuralism and its Role in Establishing the Relationship between Language and the Sacred

Abstract

Language is a unique human phenomenon, occupying all forms of knowledge, philosophy, religion, and science, and it is linked to all other human phenomena, such as thinking, civilization and myths. This study is concerned with the relationship between language and sacred things (texts and religious rituals) and the relationship of language with philosophy. The relationship between language and the sacred is very old, with the age of messages and religions, which is in contrast to the relationship between language and philosophy, which is relatively recent. Moroever, the vision of religion is sacred, but philosophy is critical. Perhaps it is strange that the vision of religion coincides with the vision of one of the philosophical schools, which is the filial, which had a great impact on its acceptance in Arab societies because structuralism presented a vision consistent with the Arab vision based on the sanctity of the language and its completion. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the effects of the link between language and the sacred on each of them.