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Quote: language is action, not communication; the basis of language is commitment within a social structure

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Topic:
commitment
Topic:
natural language as action or problem solving

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Popular accounts of language often portray it as … An important consequence of the critique in the … … The shift from language as description to language … than its representational role. In our discussion of … for language, we situate it in a social … of language as a human activity lies not … that a person understands something, we imply that …   Google-1   Google-2

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