Language and the Ineffable: A Developmental Perspective and Its Applications
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$114.00
Publication Date: January 20th, 2011
Publisher:
Lexington Books
ISBN:
9780739147139
Pages:
174
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Description
The prevailing conception of language is often called "the received view." Though ubiquitous, Louis S. Berger demonstrates its flaws and the difficulties it raises for other disciplines, such as philosophy and physics. In Language and the Ineffable, Berger develops an unconventional model of human development: ontogenesis. A radical and generative feature of the model is the premise that the neonate's world is holistic, boundary-less, unimaginable, and impossible to describe; in other words, ineffable. This study unsettles the foundations of sacrosanct beliefs about language and a host of other disciplines in the process.