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| 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 |
