The Unity of Language

Hypatia 2 (2):95 - 111 (1987)
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This paper identifies the founding project of traditional philosophy of language as an attempt to unify the diversity and individuality of spoken language in order to produce a transpersonal intelligibility. The supposed necessary truth that we cannot directly understand what others say which underlies such a project is exposed as a willful avoidance of the discourse of others typical of masculine styles of communication.

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10.1111/j.1527-2001.1987.tb01067.x

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