Consequences of Language From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity

• Main Author: Enfield, N. J. (auth)
• Other Authors: Sidnell, Jack (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Discourse analysis; Philosophy of language; Cognitive science; Sociolinguistics; Cognitive studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

What is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human? If you are reading this, you have done something that only our species has evolved to do. You have acquired a natural language. This book asks, How has this changed us? Where scholars have long w...