Perhaps now more than ever, we spend our days immersed in language. We communicate—talk, write and read—through a burgeoning array of forms and technologies. But most of us rarely stop to think about how language works, or how come we succeed in getting our ideas across in words. It all seems to happen naturally. Poets, novelists, speechwriters or the merely curious sometimes confront these questions, but it is a job that often falls to linguists and philosophers of language.
- Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone
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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/philosophy-and-the-poetic-imagination/?smid=tw-share
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