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Publication details [#28558]

Jackendoff, Ray. 1995. Preliminaries to discussing how language helps us think. Pragmatics & Cognition 4 (1) : 197–213.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and thought | reasoning

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-0907

Journal DOI

10.1075/pc

Annotation

This article proposes to set out how language helps us think. It is argued that to the extent that linguistically guided thought is the dominant form of consciously experienced human thought, reasoning takes on the linear character of language that it would not have had otherwise.