The Subjective Approach to Linguistic Signs

Abstract

It should be noted that the concept of subject has not yet been clearly defined since its introduction into linguistics. Some scholars, from the perspective of logic, take subject as a “logical subject” and claim that it is closely related to one of the two basic elements which help to decide in traditional logic; some, associating subject with traditional grammar, believe it is an element of a situation that a sentence corresponds to, one of the principal components of the two-part sentence—the grammatical subject; still some scholars put the concept of subject into the actual division of sentence and interpret it as a “psychological entity.”