TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor,Charles
TI  - The language animal: the full shape of the human linguistic capacity
SN  - 9780674660205
AV  - P107 
U1  - 401 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Cognition
KW  - Class of Fall 2017
KW  - Fritz Stern Lecturer
KW  - Guest speaker
N1  - Hier auch weitere unveränderte Nachdrucke erschienen; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -