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Publication details [#28554]

Jackendoff, Ray. 1996. How language helps us think. Pragmatics & Cognition 4 (1) : 1–34.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse, processing of | language and thought

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-0907

Journal DOI

10.1075/pc

Annotation

This paper suggests that 'inner speech' helps thought by offering a 'handle' to take relational and abstract elements into account and to process them more accurately.