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The Instruction of Imagination - Language as a Social Communication Technology (Hardcover)
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The Instruction of Imagination - Language as a Social Communication Technology (Hardcover)
Series: Foundations of Human Interaction
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The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human
language. This enormous achievement of our species is best
characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social
media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient
humans for a very particular communicative function: the
instruction of imagination. All other systems of communication in
the biological world target the interlocutors' senses; language
allows speakers to systematically instruct their interlocutors in
the process of imagining the intended meaning - instead of directly
experiencing it. This revolutionary function has changed human life
forever, and in the book it operates as a unifying concept around
which a new general theory of language gradually emerges. 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 of language 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.
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