Author: Daniel Dor
Edition: 1 edition
Publication Date: August 14, 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0190256621
ISBN-13: 978-0190256623
Pages: 280 pages
Format: pdf
Size: 6.6M

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The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement of our species is best characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient humans for a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. All other systems of communication in the biological world target the interlocutors` senses; language allows speakers to systematically instruct their interlocutors in the process of imagining the intended meaning - instead of directly experiencing it. This revolutionary function has changed human life forever, and in the book it operates as a unifying concept around which a new general theory of language gradually emerges.

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