The language animal : the full shape of the human linguistic capacity /
"In this book, Charles Taylor explains linguistic holism to people who believe language needs to be thought of as bits of information. According to one influential view of language, one that originated with Hobbes, Locke, and Condillac, language serves to encode information and to communicate i...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Designative and constitutive views
- How language grows
- Beyond information encoding
- The Hobbes-Locke-Condillac theory
- The figuring dimension of language
- Constitution 1 : the articulation of meaning
- Constitution 2 : The creative force of discourse
- How narrative makes meaning
- The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
- The range of human linguistic capacity.