The instruction of imagination. Language as a social communication technology

The instruction of imagination. Language as a social communication technology

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Daniel
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The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. Dor identifies a set of fundamental problems in the linguistic sciences - the nature of words, the complexities of syntax, the interface between semantics and pragmatics, the causal relationship between language and thought, language processing, the dialectics of universality and variability, the intricacies of language and power, knowledge oflanguage and its acquisition, the fragility of linguistic communication and the origins and evolution of language - and shows with respect to all of them how the theory provides fresh answers to the problems, resolves persistent difficulties in existing accounts, enhances the significance of empirical and theoretical achievements in the field, and identifies new directions for empirical research. The theory thus opens a new way towards the unification of the linguistic sciences, on both sides of the cognitive-social divide.Abstract: The book presents a new general theory of language as a collectively-constructed communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that is dedicated to a very particularcommunicative function: the instruction of imagination.
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Name of the Author
Daniel
Dor
Language
English
Series
Foundations of Human Interaction
ISBN
9780190256623
Release date
2015

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