>As George Steiner avers, we must err when
>we think language's primary function is communication--as with our bodily
>hexus (cf. Sheets-Johnstone), it must primarily be mimetic.
>
I can't tell. I also don't have the context/background to be able to
figure it out (that is, who's Steiner? who's Sheets-Johnstone?).
Genevieve