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Language, Society and Consciousness, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
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Language, Society and Consciousness, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
Series: Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan, v. 1
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The chapters of this volume explore the intimate relations of
society, language and mind: the development of each of these
depends on the contribution of the other two. In this sense they
are co-genetic: mind has recently been described by the famous
neuro-scientist, Susan Greenfield, as 'personalized brain.' The
development of human mind depends on what it experiences; for human
beings, experience goes beyond sensation: it is made of meaning,
and interpretation/meaning, in turn, is construed by the various
semiotic modalities, of which language is perhaps the most flexible
and most pervasive. But language has itself evolved in the course
of attempts to reach an 'other.' By shaping the nature of
communication, human relations shape also the nature of language;
meanings exchanged in verbal interaction become a major force in
shaping forms of consciousness; and our consciousness reveals
itself in our cultural practices, our ways of being, doing and
saying.
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