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Thought-based Linguistics - How Languages Turn Thoughts into Sounds (Paperback)
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Thought-based Linguistics - How Languages Turn Thoughts into Sounds (Paperback)
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The extent to which language is inseparable from thought has long
been a major subject of debate across linguistics, psychology,
philosophy and other disciplines. In this study, Wallace Chafe
presents a thought-based theory of language that goes beyond
traditional views that semantics, syntax, and sounds are sufficient
to account for language design. Language begins with thoughts in
the mind of a speaker and ends by affecting thoughts in the mind of
a listener. This obvious observation is seldom incorporated in
descriptions of language design for two major reasons. First, the
role of thought is usually usurped by semantics. But semantic
structures are imposed on thought by languages and differ from one
language to another. Second, thought does not lend itself to
familiar methods of linguistic analysis. Chafe suggests ways of
describing thoughts, traces the path languages follow from thoughts
to sounds, and explores ways in which thoughts are oriented in
time, memory, imagination, reality, and emotions.
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