2023, Vol. 9, Issue 6, Part C

Numerous scholars irrespective of their fields attempted to describe language, its behaviour and gave different theories but still it is very difficult to arrive a fixed and conclusive statement. Perhaps this is the reason that Bloomfield told “the statement of meaning is, therefore, the weak point in language study, and will remain so until human knowledge advances vary far beyond its present state” ^[1]. In this paper, an attempt is made to produce a comparative analysis of the relationship between word and its meaning in Indian knowledge tradition and in Western system with special reference to Bartrihari and Saussure respectively