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• W101172334 abstract "ON THE BASIS of Dr. Probert's recent book, Law, Language and Communication, I realized that I was almost certain to agree with what he was likely to say in his talk this afternoon. (1) Now that I have heard him, this is certainly true. He has shown interplay between principles of language study and component elements of everyday behavior. His particular field is the law. The reciprocal feedback between high generalizations and details out of which they are derived allows us to test our analyses. At one place in his book, Dr. Probert asks question, Can one imagine without words? (2) Apparently it is a rhetorical question, for he gives no answer. It was intended to shake us up. Nevertheless, I would very much like to know what his answer would be. Because he has a good imagination, he may be able to imagine law without words. But since does commonly make use of words, next best thing is to explore carefully what those words do. It has been a truism since classical times to remark on importance of language in shaping human behavior; but rise of a scientific linguistics in last century at last has given a basis for understanding mechanisms that are at work. The problems in vocabulary selection have been dealt with over centuries, but only in recent decades has realization come that grammatical categories, both obligatory and optional ones, control direction that message takes. Edward Sapir brought this awareness to many linguists from 1921 on, (3) and it was strongly reinforced by Benjamin Lee Whorf. (4) A few philosophers were able to break out of older molds, such as Wittgenstein, Charles Morris, McLuhan, and British group that have probed into ordinary language. Dr. Probert has drawn upon these to advantage. I find it difficult, however, to make a coherent whole of outlook of these thinkers. What they present are striking insights and aphorisms and wise formulations, but they lack full systematic breadth that Korzybski has shown. Korzybski is so sound, it seems to me, because he is aware of neurological basis of human reactions. He did not allow himself to talk about 'the mind,' for that has habitually referred to an artificially split-off mentalistic realm. It will be noted that Chomsky, who is usually regressive to a 17th-century outlook, constantly talks about the mind. (5) The non-elementalistic approach of Korzybski will, I believe, be recognized in long run as a necessary base. The division of labor in field of linguistics has resulted in special names like sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, geolinguistics, and others--until one begins to wonder about boundaries of linguistics itself. A startling extension was made in 1972 when president of Linguistic Society of America, Dwight Bolinger of Harvard University, gave his presidential address with title, Truth is a Linguistic Question. (6) He pointed out that questions of appropriateness in language are constantly dealt with in linguistics, and most fundamental of all is question of truth. Thus, lying is a covert category or 'mood' in linguistic system, and linguists should take it into account. This outlook poses some difficult questions, when we realize, as Dr. Probert has pointed out, that ambiguity is natural state for any linguistic utterance. …" @default.
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• W101172334 title "Comments Responding to Probert's Law Talk and Words Consciousness" @default.
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