The Pre-Linguistic Infrastructure of Conventional Language: An Inquiry into the Path of Mead, Habermas and Tomasello
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Conventional Language, G. H. Mead, J. Habermas, M. TomaselloAbstract
This paper aims at 1) criticizing the self-sufficiency of human language taken as a conventional system of signs and showing
its vital roots; 2) exploring the “infrastructure” that supports the conventional human language. The first point focuses on the ideas of George Hebert Mead and Jürgen Habermas, who affirm that conventional language arises from a natural context. It is argued that both authors assume an unjustified breach between natural and conventional communication which leads them to
the presupposition that human conventional communication is self-sufficient. The second point discusses the proposal of Michael Tomassello, who bases linguistic meaning on a pre-linguistic structure shared to a large extent with our primate relatives.
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