The Ascent of Babel: An Exploration of Language, Mind, and Understanding by Gerry T. M. Altmann

Author:Gerry T. M. Altmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-11-04T21:43:42.025000+00:00

Of course, it is all well and fine to talk about a text as a film script, and as the meaning of that text as the film itself. But what does it mean to say that we store the meaning of something as the equivalent of a film in our head? Where is the cinema screen?

Wor(l)ds in the mind

Films are basically just memories on celluloid. They allow images to be projected in the absence of the original source of the image. Language is similar in some respects-it allows us to communicate ideas that relate to things which are not around us. In these cases, the language we use refers really to some kind of memory of the things we are talking about. But although `Whom did she mean by the man she saw last night?' can only be answered with reference to a memory of the individuals concerned, it can be understood without any such memory-it is enough to know what kind of memory would be required.

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