Language as a conventional field: John Locke and Michel Foucault

The questions about the nature of language have searched for their own answers since Ancient Greece. These questions have built the realms of discussion which may result in important consequences. It is no doubt that the convention in language lies in the foundation of people's starting to understand and signify their world. John Locke, the important thinker of eightteenth-century and Michel Foucault, the important thinker of twentieth-century, dealt with the language as a conventional realm and developed their concepts via this subject. John Locke showed that in the border of comprehension of representation language is the conventional realm and how the language, with this feature of its, can get rid of its deficiencies in certain amounts. Michel Foucault pointed out conventional character of meanings and considered relations of language with the matter of knowledge (science), subject and political power. In this context, it has appeared how the subject of knowledge, subject of political power and subject of ethics has taken a shape and should take a shape within the conventional character of language. The conclusion which we arrived with the help of John Locke and Michel Foucault's studyings show us that the language's feature of being a conventional realm contains the opportunity of the language to be regulated, and this conventional realm has extreme importance both because it is a realm in which the subject generates itself and because it is a realm which generates the society itself.