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The language animal the full shape of the human linguistic capacity Charles Taylor

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2016Description: x, 352 Seiten 25 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
ISBN:
  • 9780674660205
  • 067466020X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401 23
LOC classification:
  • P107
Other classification:
  • CI 6770
  • ER 610
  • CC 4800
  • 08.34
  • 17.30
  • 18.00
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
Summary: "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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single unit book single unit book HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks F (Affiliated) F:P107 .T39 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2023-0984

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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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