That is what I investigate. Words both enable and limit human communication.
Divine communication.
When I hear:
Linguistics? Cool! How many languages do you speak?
It's like asking an optometrist how many eyes she has or a marine biologist how many orcas he owns.
Language acts upon the world, it does not merely passively describe/reflect it. Words create worlds.
God speaks to us as he makes us.
What is the world that we are creating, with our political discourse and rhetoric? In what worlds do our pattern of language index our membership? How can changing speech change society?
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