The language animal : the full shape of the human linguistic capacity

Resource Information

The work The language animal : the full shape of the human linguistic capacity represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The language animal : the full shape of the human linguistic capacity

Title remainder

the full shape of the human linguistic capacity

Statement of responsibility

Charles Taylor

Creator

• Taylor, Charles, 1931-

Subject

• Cognition
• Language and languages -- Philosophy
• Linguistics -- Philosophy

Language

eng

Summary

"In 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. This language is more than merely 'descriptive; ' it plays a 'constitutive' role."--

Assigning source

Provided by Publisher

Cataloging source

MH/DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography