The language animal : the full shape of the human linguistic capacity / Charles Taylor.
By: Taylor, Charles
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016Description: x, 352 pages ; 25 cmISBN: 9780674660205 (cloth : alk. paper); 067466020X (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Cognition | Language and languages -- Philosophy | Linguistics -- Philosophy | Linguistics -- Philosophy | Cognition | Language and languages -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 401 LOC classification: P107 | .T39 2016Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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 it. This theory has been rendered more sophisticated over the last two centuries, but it still gives a central place to the encoding of information. The thesis of Taylor's new book is that this view neglects crucial features of our language capacity. Sometimes language serves not just to encode information, but also shapes what it purports to describe. This language is more than merely 'descriptive;' it plays a 'constitutive' role."--Provided by publisher.
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