No unleashed expression without language. (17th February 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Carston, Robyn
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 46(2023)
• Publication Date: 2023-02-17
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X22000802
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: While the metarepresentational structure of ostensive communication may explain the unleashing of human expression, it neither explains the open-endedness of the thoughts expressed/communicated, nor how the multiply embedded nature of the metarepresentational structure invoked arose. These both require the recursivity of human language, a capacity which must be distinguished from external (public) languages and their use in communication.