Ostensive Imperative World: Revision history

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14 March 2023

  • curprev 04:5204:52, 14 March 2023‎ Idiomatic talk contribs‎ 967 bytes +967‎ Created page with "The ostensive and imperative signs constitute a kind of loop: once we are looking at the same thing we can request, and if the request is complied with we can confirm that by repeating the name of the thing. Eric Gans, in The Origin of Language, uses the relation between surgeon and nurse to illustrate an ostensive-imperative dialectic: the surgeon requests the “scalpel,” and the nurse passes it to him, repeating, “scalpel.” We can think of this as a self-contain..." Tag: Visual edit
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