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Conveying meaning is necessarily more primary than forming group identity simply because "do you talk like us" depends on "us talking to each other" in the firs
by weberc2 9y ago
Conveying meaning is necessarily more primary than forming group identity simply because "do you talk like us" depends on "us talking to each other" in the first place. It's hard to imagine an evolution where intra-group communication happened as a result of extra-group communication.
- icebraining 9y agoRight, but here we're talking about understanding in a broader group - specifically, between groups - since that was what dukoid's post was about.
- weberc2 9y agoDukoid said the primary purpose of language is not communication (conveying meaning), but intergroup identification. I don't see how this could be possible.