Axiology (linguistics)

The linguistic axiology (from Greek  ἀξία axía "value") tries to evaluate the "performance" of individual languages in the context of language evaluation and exposes them to language criticism . Axiological research focuses on linguistic accuracy, language maintenance , communicativity of linguistic elements and precision ("appropriate expression"). Linguistic style and language aesthetics are also considered.

In the literature there are contradicting information on the history of its origins. Some authors attribute the term to Paul Lapie (1869–1927), who used the term in his 1902 work Logique de la volonté . The Encyclopedia Britannica refers to Eduard von Hartmann's Grundriss der Axiologie , published seven years later , because he first used the term in the title. On the other hand, Eduard von Hartmann used the term as early as 1890 with L'axiologie et ses divisions .