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100			_aTaylor, Charles
245			_aLanguage animal : the full shape of the human linguistic capacity
260			_bHarvard University Press, _c2016. _aCambridge;
300			_a352 p.; _c24 cm.
365			_b35.00/INR 2702.00 _cUSD _d00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIn this book, Charles Taylor explains linguistic holism to people who believe language needs to be thought of as bits of information. According to one influential view of language, one that originated with Hobbes, Locke, and Condillac, language serves to encode information and to communicate it. This theory has been rendered more sophisticated over the last two centuries, but it still gives a central place to the encoding of information. The thesis of Taylor's new book is that this view neglects crucial features of our language capacity. Sometimes language serves not just to encode information, but also shapes what it purports to describe.
650			_aCognition
650			_aLinguistic holism
650			_aLinguistic philosophy
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