
73: Consequences of Language (with Nick Enfield and Morten Christiansen)
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Consequences of Language
Before language, we had intersubjectivity. We could join our intentions up to do stuff. But after language arose, it was enhanced. And once you've got language circulating in a community and linguistic specific properties of linguistic structure, then that's where you get this enhanced intersubjectivity developing.
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