Hi Pedro,
You wrote about my comments on language register...
>This last note of yours connects somehow with something I am reading >in
>Valsiner's The Guided Mind...he concludes language "sets us specific limits
>upon the possible ordering of the subjective experiences of the Geist"
>(p273)
Well, of course I can not understand the point fully from an excerpt, so I
hope I am not misinterpreting, but this seems to be, well, opposite from
what I think. I mean, this seems to me kind of suggesting that we are
limited in what we can think, maybe even be, by our lanmguage. I was
thinking that when people have a language that allows for different
registers to indicate interpersonal replationships, they can actually
express ideas more full and complex than those denoted by the language....in
other words, I think people are not limited by the explicit (apparent) scope
of their particular language.
So, Pedro, to really put my cards on the table here, I guess I am
disagreeing with this quote. But very tentatively, perhaps you can sense
this, because I am new to the list and feel kind of shy about that. So
please help me out here by being patient and gentle with my first XMCA
disagreement...:)
Renee
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