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- W977143058 abstract "It seems that every culture has the urge to mythologise, or, to use Barthes' words, to ‘transform history into nature’. Of course, the choice of object to be naturalised betrays the anxieties and preoccupations of the mythologisers, but so do the methods and forms they adopt. These forms are the strategies with which a culture seeks to allay its anxieties, creating a fiction that gives shape to the unknowns of the past and, in doing so, explains the present. The contingent and the man-made become natural. This naturalisation is the fundamental impulse behind medieval myths of the invention of language. Written in the context of a culture which is characterised by a constantly shifting multi-lingualism, these accounts were obstinately founded in the idea that language was created at a given moment, in a definable manner. It was a single event, not a process. Moreover, language was initially a single language, imposed on to a primal scene of confusion so that the primitive, languageless inhabitants of the earth might communicate with each other. It took the form of individual names imposed on to individual things, and its basic currency was the word, distinct, utterable and most important of all, significant. In this way, the individual word became the essential part of the medieval economy of language, and the foundation of grammatica's operations." @default.
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- W977143058 title "Origins and mythologies: the invention of language and meaning" @default.
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