RE: [xmca] Silly Offshoots and Dropped Subjects

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From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
Behalf Of David Kellogg
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 2:20 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] Silly Offshoots and Dropped Subjects
*** David wrote:
  I agree with Mike (and disagree with Pinker) that the cultural-historical
link between words represented by etymology never entirely goes away; it is
always there, even when the words are stored as purely psychological
entities in Steven Pinker's "mental lexicon" and it is a part (but only a
SMALL part) of the "technical means" by which word meanings are used to
carry out speech acts.

David, I read your post quickly at the time, but this one point has come
back to mind frequently since then.

Do you have a particular source in Pinker where I can find his taking this
position? I'd be interested in seeing how he uses it, and how he supports
it.

Thanks in advance.

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Received on Sun Jan 13 14:42 PST 2008