As long as the utterance in its wholeness remains terra incognita for the linguist, it is out of the question to speak of a
genuine, concrete, and a scholastic kind of understanding of syntactic forms...
Our point of view, which deals with the living
phenomena of language, must give precedence to syntactic forms over morphological or phonetic ones (4).
What is needed is profound and acute analysis of the word as social sign before its function aas the medium of consciousness can be understood (15).
Social psychology exists primarily in a wide variety of forms of the "utterance," of little speech genres of internal and external kinds-things left completely unstudied to the present day (20).
It is clear from the outset that, without exception, all categories worked out by linguists for the analysis of the forms of
external language (the lexicological, the grammatical, the phonetic) are inapplicable to the analysis of inner speech or, if
applicable, are applicable only in thoroughly and radically revised versions (38).