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In brains and in business, our communication structures -- physical and otherwise -- shape our communicative abilities.
But for many of us our communicative lives have become lives of chaos, fragmentation, addiction, alienation, guilt.
That is, when we engage in conversation, much of what we say does not involve making claims about the world but involves instructing our communicative partners how to adjust word meanings for the purposes of our conversation.
In an age when even such fundamentals of life as talking, writing and making music are being digitized, to the atrophy of our communicative faculties, one feels a reverence for people like this, whose hands, ears and eyes protect the sonic legacy of Beethoven and Chopin.
At the same time, however, language itself would have been evolving so as the better to suit our cognitive and perceptual capacities, and our communicative needs.
Though logic which is inherent in natural ('everyday') language (4.002, 4.003, 6.124) and which has evolved to meet our communicative, exploratory, and survival needs is not invented in the same way, a valid logical inference captures the relationship between possible facts and a sound logical inference captures the relationship between existent facts.
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Aldus Huxley predicted our demise as communicative beings: machines that keep our attention and keep us looking down.
The theoretical perspectives we draw from support our examination of communicative resource use in interaction toward our goal of working to understand power relations in classrooms and their connection to wider societal processes.
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