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So what are the functions of language? On top of my head: - Language as communication channel (receive and convey information about the world) - Language as affordance (saying something = action towards a goal) - Language as social lubricant (chitchat, etc)
- Language as operating system for the mind (a tool to formulate complex thoughts, to store thoughts, index & retrieve thoughts or memories) - Language as artistic medium (poetry, etc) - Language as DNA for society & civilization (tool to store and propagate knowledge, culture)
The common thread here is that language is always an interface: the study of language only makes sense in the context of the relationship between an agent and its environment (including other agents), an agent and itself, or many agents as a collective.
Modeling the statistical structure of language absent any context is a bit like modeling the latent space of all airplane cockpits. It will enable you to generate new realistic airplane cockpits via interpolation, but it misses the purpose & the broader context of this interface
My first paper ever was titled “Why do we articulate your thoughts?” The paper wasn’t good, but I think the thesis stands: We project from a very high dimensional thought space to a tiny linear space, forcing us to distill key semantic elements. Just one reason of course.
Whao!! I literally explained the same thesis to my friend couple of days back. But, I had another layer with the thought space being a subspace of a much higher dimensional space in which neurons fire.
Language did not evolve for communication, it evolved for thought according to:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763416305796 …
Can you suggest intense reading list on this subject.
Start with Gleick's "The Information" for a history of info tech and human society and then skim through McLuhan's "Understanding Media" for systems insight into mental effects of media. Then hit Holland's "Signals & Boundaries" and Borges' "Library of Babel".
As a professional dramatist, I believe that a HUGE percentage of the language deployed in conversation is of the "affordance" variety. (Also, "affordance" is a very cool word, so thanks for that.)
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