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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:58:09 -0600
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- Liz Hamp-Lyons -- forgive me for replying through the net but I can't get
- your address to work directly. The concept that language is totally a
- social construct springs out of philisophical investigarions which deny
- that anything can be constituted as other than a selfconsistent system.
- The system need not agree with other systems, only with itself. Thus
- we effectively cut off discussion of how one system might interact with
- another, especially if it suits our agenda to do so. However, language
- is a catetory of biological function and as such has charecteristics
- and behavioral consequences that are independent of any social construct.
- I don't buy your assertion that power relationships are purely social.
- How did we get this far afield?
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- Ron Shook
- "This is the secret of life: after dinner, wash the bowls."
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