Language reform, social imaginaries, interlocutor reference

Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote that “to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.” Here I suggest that the inverse is also true: to imagine a form of life involves imagining a language, or at least, a way of speaking. More specifically, I argue that those who imagine an alternative way life ver...

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Main Author: Jack Sidnell
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Bologna 2021-11-01
Series:Dive-In
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Online Access:https://dive-in.unibo.it/article/view/13892