A Dictionary of Media and Communication by Chandler Daniel;Munday Rod; & Rod Munday

A Dictionary of Media and Communication by Chandler Daniel;Munday Rod; & Rod Munday

Author:Chandler, Daniel;Munday, Rod; & Rod Munday [Chandler, Daniel & Munday, Rod]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780198841838
Publisher: OxfordUP
Published: 2019-12-14T00:00:00+00:00


http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought

• ‘What our language habits reveal’: a TED talk

language community See speech community.

language functions See linguistic functions.

language games Wittgenstein’s conception of *language use as *game-like. Different uses of language (e.g. apologies or requests) have different sets of rules, which do not exist outside of the social practices which create them. Thus *meaning emerges from the interplay of language and the named phenomena according to the rules applicable in certain *contexts. This conceptualization replaced the picture theory of language that characterized Wittgenstein’s earlier philosophy (see also truth). Rather than *depicting a pre-existing *reality which is at first sketched out and later refined over time, language acts like the rules of a game within which its players’ reality is constantly being redefined and shaped. For example, in the Middle Ages what would have been identified as ‘demonic possession’ is in the modern era defined as ‘mental illness’: the latter does not represent a more faithful picture of an underlying reality, but rather the applications of a different language game—a different set of rules and conditions under which a phenomenon can be understood. See also use theory; compare communication game.



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