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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2018

Wallace Chafe
Wallace Chafe
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University of California, Santa Barbara

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Thought-based Linguistics
How Languages Turn Thoughts into Sounds
 , pp. v - vi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

Language consists of signs, representing ideas. These signs are selected by the person who speaks, in accordance with the ideas prevailing in his own mind, in order to produce the reversed process in the individual spoken to; they are used for that process – the most wonderful and important on this earth – of conveying ideas from one distinct individual to another; for the communion of mind with mind, through sensuous impressions, made in skillful succession, and in accordance with general laws.

Francis Lieber 1850. Quoted in Andresen (Reference Andresen1990: 115–116)

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  • Wallace Chafe, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Book: Thought-based Linguistics
  • Online publication: 13 April 2018
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