Consequences of Language: From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity Enfield N. J.
Consequences of Language: From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity Enfield N. J. What is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human?If you are…
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Consequences of Language: From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity Enfield N. J.
What is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human?If you are reading this, you have done something that only our species has evolved to do. This book asks, How has this changed us?Where scholars have long wondered what it is about humans that makes language possible, N. J. You have acquired a natural language.
In Consequences of Language their objective is to understand what modern language really is and to identify its logical and conceptual consequences for social life. Enfield and Jack Sidnell ask instead, What is it about humans that is made possible by language? Central to this undertaking is the concept of intersubjectivity, the open sharing of subjective experience.
There is, Enfield and Sidnell contend, a uniquely human form of intersubjectivity, and it is essentially intertwined with language