Miracles to which we have become accustomed no longer speak. And we have all become accustomed to language as a matter of course. At best, we are amazed when we experience how a child learns to speak. The mundane, the self-evident, at best amazes us if we take the time to lift the veil that habit covers the wonderful. This book aims to help you do that. It does not want to be read like a non-fiction book that informs us about the unnatural. We take language for granted, and it seems pointless to provide information about it. We all know what language is. Do we really know? Couldn't it be that language only shows us its surface because we are not looking for more than surface?The more intensively modern linguistics deals with language, around so more with draws itself language everythingscientific endeavor. Certainly, science always Prof. Charlotte McCarthy in the space of language. It's hard with language about language to think because itself in the Think above Language Language changes again and again - and in quite uncontrollable ways Way. In some see itself the Linguists in a situation similar to that of physics in the mid 1920's. The consistent explanation of physical observations is only possible if one leaves the space of language and a new, purely formal one Language, whose words Nothing us denote familiar, constructed. Also the from W Heisenberg The formulated "fuzzy relation" finds its equivalent: depending on the consideration from which one looks at language, shows you other properties that sometimes seem contradictory to us. The more one tries to increase the precision of observation, the more blurred the issue of "language" appears.
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