dc.contributor.author |
Wiltschko, Martina |
dc.date.accessioned |
2022-12-02T07:06:33Z |
dc.date.available |
2022-12-02T07:06:33Z |
dc.date.issued |
2022 |
dc.identifier.citation |
Wiltschko M. Language is for thought and communication. Glossa. 2022;7(1):19 p. DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5786 |
dc.identifier.issn |
2397-1835 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55066 |
dc.description.abstract |
There is an ancient debate about whether language is an instrument for thought or for
communication. I argue that the distinction is misleading, and that language is an integral part
of both, human-specific thought, and communication. The argument is based on the growing
consensus that grammatical knowledge – a hallmark of human language – encompasses not only
the propositional content of an utterance but also its communicative content. If communicative
content is regulated by grammatical knowledge, then it follows that communication is as much
a function of language as thought is. |
dc.description.sponsorship |
Funding is acknowledged from grant PID2019-105241GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033,
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU) and Agencia Estatal de Investigación
(AEI) and grant 2017 SGR 1265 (AGAUR); as well as a SSHRC Insight grant (Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada 435-2018-1011). |
dc.format.mimetype |
application/pdf |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.publisher |
Ubiquity Press |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Glossa. 2022;7(1):19 p. |
dc.rights |
© 2022 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
dc.rights.uri |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
dc.title |
Language is for thought and communication |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
dc.identifier.doi |
https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5786 |
dc.subject.keyword |
Function of language |
dc.subject.keyword |
Interactional language |
dc.subject.keyword |
Language and thought |
dc.relation.projectID |
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2019-110120RB-I00 |
dc.rights.accessRights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.type.version |
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |