Re: trainlasting
erespess@inil.com
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:28:59 -0400
>erespess@inil.com wrote:
>
>> Everyone's reality is shaped by their linguistic thought process.
Matt K said:
>Yes, but eveyone's reality is determined entirely by the structure
>that underlies all language.
>
>Every language is indeed structured differently at the syntactic (and
>maybe even semantic) level, but all are predicated on the same
>structure of difference.
I agree - I think we are making different points, but they are not mutually
exclusive. The idea I am getting at is that reality is not only structured
by language, but is structured differently by different languages. The
theory you are discussing, that of (I think) language at at it's most basic
level being the differentiation of self vs. other, is not a theory that i'm
familiar with. The bit that you discussed does makes sense to me, even
though I had never come across it. I don't know enough about this theory
or languages other than english to say that they are all predicated on a
structure of difference, but I assume you are basing that on someone's
facts. I would like to read more about this - where should I look?
Elizabeth