Working Paper 5 on The Ka:rmik Linguistic Theory (1988)

Ka:rmik Linguistics: Theory and Practice 5

Procedure for Ka:rmik Linguistic Theory
Chilukuri Bhuvaneswar, CIEFL, Hyderabad

How this theory is implemented in creation is the next major problem to be

solved. A theory is implemented by a procedure.

In Ka:rmik Linguistic Theory, the karmaphalabho:gam of the karmaphalam of

the karma is realized as an emergent phenomenon from the Interconnected-
Interrelated-Interdependent Networking of the Five Realities (actional,
contextual actional, socioculturalspiritual, cognitive, and dispositional) to
project the ultimate ka:rmik reality. Finally, it triggers the
karmaphalabho:gam of the karmaphalam of the karma of the ka:rmik actor
(the experiential human being) in the context. The procedure for
implementing the theory of language creation is therefore outlined in terms
of constructing these five realities to bring forth the ka:rmik reality along
with a number of principles that bring forth these five realities such as
outlined below.

I. The Five Realities

Ka:rmik Reality is an emergent reality brought forth by a radial interaction
of:

1. Actional Reality (Lingual Actional Reality)

2. Contextual Actional Reality (Context + Actional Reality)
3. Socioculturalspiritual Reality (Society + Culture + Spirituality)
4. Cognitive Reality
5. Dispositional reality.

Each reality is produced by a superimposition of the following reality on the

previous one and also anushangikally derived from the previous reality in a
hierarchical evolution in the gradual evolution perspective. To explain it
further, cognitive reality is produced from dispositional reality and contains
disposition (personality) and so it becomes dispositional cognitive reality;
socioculturalspiritual reality is produced from dispositional cognitive reality
and contains dispositional cognition and so it becomes dispositional cognitive
socioculturalspirituality and consequently dispositional socioculturalspiritual
cognitive reality by the Reversal of Order Principle in application. This is
dispositionalsocioculturalspiritual cognitive reality is further superimposed on
the context to produce dispositionalsocioculturalspiritual contextual
cognitive reality in a similar way. Finally, lingual action is performed to
produce dispositional, socioculturalspiritual, contextual actional cognitive
lingual actional reality. The result of this reality gives rise to ka:rmik reality
and the individual experiences pleasure or pain accordingly.

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These five realities are essentially only one reality, namely, actional reality in
a top-down process which is realized by an evolution of dispositional reality
into dispositional cognitive reality into dispositional socioculturalspiritual
cognitive reality into dispositional socioculturalspiritual contextual actional
cognitive reality into dispositional socioculturalspiritual contextual actional,
(lingual) actional cognitive reality which finally transforms categorically from
the state of cognition into the specific lingual actional (sound or uttered
speech) reality.

(17) Dispositional Reality [Dispositional Socioculturalspiritual

Contextual Actional, (Lingual) Actional] Cognitive Reality
Lingual Actional (Spoken or Written Speech) Reality

Every human being is endowed with Consciousness and the powers of

reasoning and cognition on the one hand and a distinct personality or
svabha:vam (svabha:vam – literally, one’s mode of thinking: a complex of
Traits, Knowledge, and Va:sana:s in KLT) on the other hand. When a human
being performs action, his disposition (personality) is charged by
Consciousness and becomes Consciousness – qualified – Disposition
(personality) which gives rise to the Dispositional Reality. As the
Dispositional (personality) Functional Pressure builds up, the desire for
semiotic communication is impelled and that leads to lingual action(al
reality). This is achieved by a complex I-I-I Star Networking of all the five
realities into the desired lingual action.

At the formative stages of a language, the cognition of action procedure is

used to produce symbolic representation which is gradually developed into a
system by [IUP- Troubleshooting – Problem Solving Strategies – Solution] /
[IUP- Creative Exploration-Innovation Strategies-Innovation]. The formation
of language and the system requires the following factors and processes:

A. Factors:
i. Consciousness (to cognize language, and produce language);
ii. Disposition (to specify and make choices, produce
conceptualization,
pattern and structure the form, and direct its production – in short,
specify, conceptualize and produce any (lingual) action));
iii. Socioculturalspirituality to assist disposition to specify and
produce
lingual action;
iv. Context to function as the stage on which the action is to be
performed
and facilitate the contextual action;

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v. Lingual Action to ultimately produce language as a system and its

use.

B. Processes:
i. Dispositionalizing and producing the lingual action by making
1. Karma as the substratum for Disposition;
2. Disposition as the substratum for the cognition of the entire gamut of
Action from generation to its conceptualization to its materialization
on the
one hand as well as its meaning, function, and experience on the
other hand.

At the applicative and experiential stages, the system is used as a resource.

The network of lingual action can be shown as follows:

(18a) Karma Disposition Cognition

Conceptualization Form
Formation Patterned Structuration Application Function
of Action Formation of Action Meaning

Experience

The linguistic system evolves as an autopoeitic, biolingual system by

gradual ka:rmik (dispositional (personality)) evolution and maintains
itself intact as long as the dispositional structure of the lingual community
that creates it remains in tact. When there are changes in the individual-
collective dispositionality of the language community that trigger new forms
of lingual behavior and subsequently bifurcation points by the same process
of individual-contextual-collective conjunction of variant forms in the same
system, a new idiolect emerges which transforms into a new sociolect or a
dialect during the course of time. Eventually, a further breakup may
diachronically evolve leading to a separate language.

The Efficient Cause is the individual being which is conscious. But

Consciousness illumines and does not impel action; when the Disposition of
the individual is qualified with Consciousness, it becomes analytic and
dynamic and impacts on the mind to perceive the concerned knowledge and
reason dispositionally to generate, specify, direct, and materialize creative
(lingual) action. In other words, dispositional, creative, intelligence or simply
Consciousness-Qualified-Disposition is the efficient cause. However, this is an

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a:nushangik product of karma. Hence, the efficient cause for lingual action
is:
(18b) Consciousnes-Qualified-[Karma Disposition].

The Material Cause of the Form is the breath (the airstream of the
human being). It is already out there in Nature but is channelized through
the lungs and passes through the mouth. When it is processed through the
vocal organs, it produces soud as an emergent phenomenon. Therefore, the
material cause is the emergent vocalization. The Material Cause of the
Content is the Phenomenal Knowledge of this and that as so and so in such
and such manner of objects, action, and states of being.
We need to posit two material causes because of the symbolic nature of
lingual action – in non symbolic activity, there will be only one material
cause.

The Direct Instrumental Cause is the Vocal Organ Complex which is

instrumental in producing the vocalization. The Indirect Instrumental
Cause is the Context on which the vocalization is produced as speech. Both
are necessary to produce speech since no vocalization can be produced
without the vocal organs and its production does not take place without a
context.

When there is a conjunction of all these three causes for the coordination of
the coordination of activity, speech (language) emerges as group behavior.
But this emergence of speech as a system is not spontaneous, that is, it is
not genetically inherited but dispositionally obtained by gradual evolution of
the lingual activity from mere vocalization into a symbol into a primitive
symbolic system into a developed symbolic system.

(18c) i. Sound – Sign – Sign System Phoneme – Symbol –

Symbolic System
ii. Symbolic System:
[Primitive Developed Complex Bifurcated] Lingual System
This Gradual Evolution is ordered through linear, parallel, and radial
processes to bring about the emergent system. From a linear perspective,
first, Dispositional functional Pressure causes the eruption of the sounds to
symbolically represent the experience (such as crying out of pain, fear, or
hunger) of the emotional reaction by vocal reaction; second, the emitted
sounds are turned into symbols by mental reaction (through reasoning and
ideation); third, the body of symbols is turned into a system of a few sounds,
words, and elementary syntactic patterns by its constant use and refinement
and simple standardization; fourth, the simply standardized system is
remembered, transmitted, and preserved during the course of time from one
generation to another generation. At this stage, the development of the
discourse is elementary, and communication is relatively restricted to a few

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speech acts either in the form of simple sounds, or may be words as the
units of communication. To explain it further, the sound or the word is the
syntactic unit like the child talk or telegraphese. However, a few elementary
rules must have been formed from the patterns of lingual behavior. In this
stage, language is capable of representing simple ideas, feelings, and
experiences. This is the basic or elementary stage of the evolution of
language.

At the intermediate stage, the system evolves from a stage of simple

standardization to a complex standardization. At this stage, the phonological,
phonetic, lexical, syntactic, and semantic components are expanded and
fairly well developed. The syntactic unit of communication evolves from
sounds or words into phrases and sentences and simple discourse structures
must have emerged. In this stage, many rules must have been formed
making the system complex and capable of representing complex ideas,
feelings, and experiences.

At the advanced stage, the system evolves from a complex to a

comprehensive stage of standardization. At this stage, the phonological
system is firmly established; the lexicon is exhaustively developed within an
elaborate syntactic system; and different shades of meaning are well
recognized and represented. The rules are almost complete making the
system capable of representing almost all the complex ideas, feelings, and
experiences and the speech acts in a creative and systematic way. The stage
is set for change through adaptation, modification, analogical innovation,
and internal restructuration of the system.

During the process of evolution of a linguistic system, the lingual

community’s behavior and survival plays a critical role. As the lingual
community’s behavioural and existential status is, so will be the status of its
language. If the community flourishes culturally, economically, and
politically, the language survives, grows, transforms, and flourishes too; if
not, it decays and dies like human beings do.

From a parallel perspective, as sounds are used, they are used as

monophonemic or polyphonemic sounds, and again as words at the same
time in a parallel process; furthermore, as words are used, they are used as
syllables and polysyllables; and when words are used together, sentences
are used at the same time. In other words, there is a parallel processing of
sounds as phonemes, syllables, words, and sentences. This is with reference
to the form of the linguistic system.

In a similar way, the form of the system is simultaneously linked to the

meaning of the form by the superimposition technique and a meaningful
formal system is developed by parallel processing. Again, this meaningful
formal system is put to use by further superimposition of function onto it in a

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context. Thus, form-function-content co-evolve in a parallel process as

language is put to use to coordinate the coordination of action to fulfill one’s
desires.

From a radial perspective, the form-function-content are interconnected-

interelated-interdepended in a radial network and language is generated,
specified, directed, and materialized in unified cognemic units for the
construction of dispositional(or ka:rmik) reality by human beings in the
context of their living.

This procedure is furthermore implemented by a number of principles given

below.

D. II. The Principles for Realizing the Realities

These principles are related to the creation of these five realities for their
experience at the plane of their formation as action, such as dispositional
action for the formation of dispositional reality for its experience, cognitive
action for the formation of cognitive reality for its experience, and so on; and
then related to their experience in networks – within – networks in an atomic
– (w)holistic function: Action – Reality – Experience. They are integrated
within the Universal Sciences of Action, Living, and Lingual Action in the
same networks – within – networks principle.

(5) Universal Science of Action Principles

a. Universal Science of Creation:
1. Space-Time-Matter Axis;
2. Material Activity of Non-living Systems – Mental Activity of Living Systems-
Contextual
Activity of Nature;
3. Birth-Growth-Sustenance-Transformation-Decay-Death Continuum
4. Below- Middle- Above- Beyond Causality Principle
5. The Why-How-What-When-Where Principle
6. Cause – Means – Effect (Goal) Process Principle
7. Causality: Efficient Cause –Material Cause-Instrumental Cause
b. Universal Science of Living:
1. Existence- Knowledge – Action - Experience;
2. Dispositionality;
3. Socioculturalspirituality;
4.Contextual Action;
5.(Mental/Lingual/Physical) Action;
6. Action – Results - Experience
c. Universal Science of Lingual Action:
1. Vocal Organs: Vocal Phonic Action;
2. Mental Organs: Thinking;
3. Integration of Lingual Action with Living;

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4. Dispositional reality- via- Cognitive Reality – via- Socioculturalspiritual Reality – via –

Contextual
Actional Reality – via –Lingual Actional Reality.
5. Consciousness – Awareness - Meaning – Matter – Activity (Mental/ Lingual/Physical: Function-
Meaning-Form) - Experience
6. Development of the Linguistic System by Gradual Evolution
7. U.S. Action – U.S. Living – U.S. Lingual Action U.S. Action – U.S.Lingual Action. – U.S.Living

I. Principles of Dispositional Action: Dispositional reality

(1) The Principle of Dispositional action:
Disposition Desire Effort Action [Result Experience]
(2) The Principle of Choice:
Disposition DispositionalBias Response Bias Choice
(3) The Principle of Experience:
Luminosity – Analyticity – Experientiality
(4) The Given – Seen – Chosen Principle
i. a. the context: collective environmental-socioculturalspiritual-dispositional
Dispositional
setting coordinated by karma
Reality
b. the individual setting coordinated by disposition (personality)
ii. the scope and limitations of the settings
iii. a. I-U-P
b. Impact of Memory and va:sana on IUP
c. Construction of Ka:rmik Reality
d. Realization of Lingual Action as the CHOSEN for coordinating activity
through dispositionalityfor experientiality
iv. Variation: Causal, Means-Oriented, and Effect-Oriented

II. Principles of Cognitive Action: Cognitive Reality

A. Action Cognition Procedure
1. IUP- Creative Exploration-Innovation Strategies-Innovation
2. IUP -Trouble Shooting-Problem Solving Strategies-Solution
3. IUP – Memory of Type of Action - Token Reproduction
4. Action – Pattern – Rule – Principle – Law
5. Algorithmic-Heuristic-Automatic Processing
6. Type – Token; and Prototype- Category Principle
Cogn
itive Reality
B. Structure of Action Cognition Procedure
1. Disposition (personality) – Cognition – Conceptualization
2. Concept – Pattern – Structure (of an Object)
3. Concept - Process (Procedure) – Structure (of an Action)
4. Feeling (of State) – Qualitativity – Existence (of Being)
5. Experientiality (of Result) – Success/Failure – Pleasure/Pain

III. Principles of Socioculturalspiritual Action: Socioculturalspiritual Reality

1. Social Action

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2. Cultural Action; 2a. Sociocultural Action Socioculturalspiritual

Reality
3. Spiritual Action; 3a. Socioculturalspiritual Action

IV. Principles of Contextual Action: Contextual Reality

1. Spatiotemporalmaterial Contextualization
2. Socioculturalspiritual Contextualization Contextual Reality
3. Individual-Collective- Actional Contextualization
V. Principles of Action: Actional Reality
1. Conceptualization
2. Contextualization Actional Reality
3. Production

All these realities join together to produce the actional reality: disposition (personality) impacts on
cognition to produce dispositional cognition; as an individual is placed in a context and is impelled to
act, he does so through his socioculturalspiritual filter and thus produces his own dispositional,
socioculturalspiritual, contextual cognitional action. Finally, the results of his action produce the
experiential reality and so he experiences them accordingly as his ka:rmik reality.

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