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Internalizing communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Gerard O'Brien  and
Jon Opie
Gerard O'Brien
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005 gerard.obrien@adelaide.edu.aujon.opie@adelaide.edu.au http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/philosophy/gobrien.htm http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/philosophy/jopie.htm
Jon Opie
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005 gerard.obrien@adelaide.edu.aujon.opie@adelaide.edu.au http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/philosophy/gobrien.htm http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/philosophy/jopie.htm
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Abstract

Carruthers presents evidence concerning the cross-modular integration of information in human subjects which appears to support the “cognitive conception of language.” According to this conception, language is not just a means of communication, but also a representational medium of thought. However, Carruthers overlooks the possibility that language, in both its communicative and cognitive roles, is a nonrepresentational system of conventional signals – that words are not a medium we think in, but a tool we think with. The evidence he cites is equivocal when it comes to choosing between the cognitive conception and this radical communicative conception of language.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 6 , December 2002 , pp. 694 - 695
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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