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If these early insights could be made accessible, they would match much more closely a linguist's notion of a socially responsible and practically useful account of human language. ), we should have a clearer sense of how (in the wording of my title) language is responsible for shaping human experience. When you were about one year old, you began learning your mother tongue in earnest. But at the same time as you learnt it, you were also using it in order to learn: using language to build up a picture of the phenomenal world that you experienced around you and inside your own body.
But the real reason is a more subtle one. Children of around four to six years old are just reaching the stage, in their language development, when they can handle meanings that are abstract: they can construe entities that have no perceptual correlate, like worth and due and habit and intend and price; and this has two important consequences. First, it means that they can cope with abstract symbols, like letters or characters, and the abstract concepts that go with them (including the critical distinction between writing and drawing); so they can now master this new medium.
1261-76. 7 GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR those objects, they also have to face the consequences: that the phenomena they see around them may look very different from the commonsense phenomena that make up daily life. What linguists mean by language is not the same thing as what language means to everybody else. It is the same set of phenomena that we are talking about, more or less; but placed in a different light, and so having different properties and different possibilities. For me, as a grammarian, a 'language' is a resource for making meaning — a semogenic system, together with the processes which instantiate the system in the form of text (spoken and written discourse); and 'meaning' is understood in functional terms — in relation to the social contexts in which language has evolved with the human species.