Language and communication

1. The philosophy of language

‘Whereof one cannot speak,

thereof one must be silent’
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970

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analytic philosophy
Analytical philosophy

is the analysis of the structure of thought;

the goal of philosophy

the analysis of thought

consists in the analysis of language.
3. Hermeneutics
Human consciousness is never isolated,
but rather in the midst of
historical development,
the social environment
and the linguistic universe
of which it is a part.
 Noam Chomsky on Language Aquisition
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1. language sets us apart from ……………………..…
Plato
2. We are born knowing things as ………………..
3. The mind is a blank slate on which experience write according to
John Locke and other empiricist
……………………………………….………………
4. What is Chomsky’s hypothesis?
there are inborn structures what he called language ……………………..………….….
………………………..……………………………………………………… acquisition device