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Noam Chomsky – The Function of Language [2018?]
- richardatlarge 5y agoThe lit crit community were into function, NC was all structure. Skinner was way ahead of them, and his time with his book Verbal Behavior. Language is a behavior guided by no special processes relative to other human behavior
- readonthegoapp 5y agothe overwhelming evidence is that internal thought is playing some function for us, you know, planning, agonizing,... :-D and the earlier part: other prof: well, you're thinking about what you're going to say to the other person. chomsky: well, the other person could have died (and you might _still_ be thinking about it/them -- i.e. you're not going to be communicating with them while you're both alive, at least).