The New Significance of Language in the Act of Speaking

In the next chapter, they talk about how a speech has a content that is beyond what it proclaims to say. They're talking about this in ten thousand b c, when humans were first starting to kind of galvanized their own human identity as state building creatures. What they're getting at is how reductive it comes to be when we think of the world in terms of signification or signifiers and signified.