M. Kanjirakkat, Jobin
(2017)
Other minds and stories.
Language and Language Teaching, 6 (2).
pp. 47-51.
ISSN 2277-307X
Abstract
Something very intriguing about the use of language is the fact that thoughts in the speaker's mind are converted into a sequence of symbols and the sequence of symbols received by the receiver's sense organs are
converted back into thoughts. Although this phenomenon may be hard to understand, it is presumably not a mystery. Sufficient research into the neurophysiology of
language should uncover the mechanisms that underlie these processes of encoding and decoding. However, here I will try to give a social-psychological description of
the nature of this relationship and offer a criticism of an influential contemporary approach, mentalism (Berwick and Chomsky, 2016) to understanding language and mind.
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