a theory of language as a collective-body maker
  • Drazen Pehar
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    Hi there. I produced a book precis recently. You may read it from my academia.edu site: https://www.academia.edu/44518181/LANGUAGE_AS_A_COLLECTIVE_BODY_MAKER_AN_EVOLUTIONARY_PERSPECTIVE

    The idea is pretty simple, and as I argue, it can be formed in two simple steps. However, there are no many precursors to the idea, which I find strange. Well, except one in Quine-Ullian, and in some imagery that belongs more to the provenance of legal-political tradition, and literature (e.g. Lucian-Heracles).
    I would like to get your feedback, and especially if you are aware of any similar ideas (probably in analytic tradition of philosophy, perhaps logical positivism, and similar). Thanks! p.s. Also I am seeking a department (Research Center or Institute or similar, but not in US) that would support my further work on the frame. Thanks again.
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  • unenlightened
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    The great man, the great man
    Historians his memory
    Artists, his senses, thinkers, his brain
    Labourers, his growth, explorers, his limbs
    And soldiers his death each second
    And mystics his rebirth each second
    Businessmen, his nervous system
    No-hustle men his stomach
    Astrologers, his balance, lovers, his loins
    His skin it is all patchy
    But soon will reach one glowing hue
    God is his soul, infinity, his goal
    The mystery, his source
    And civilisation, he leaves behind
    Opinions are his fingernails

    Incredible String Band, Maya.

    https://www.tutor2u.net/sociology/blog/meet-the-perspectives-functionalism-part-2

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_organism.

    These came immediately to mind.

    The analogy of The collective as body is ancient and modern; scientific and pseudoscientific in its manifestations from time to time. I don't have a specific place for language in the body schematics of yore, but surely your efforts fit into this general tradition. The language itself records the analogy in terms like 'headmaster,' 'body politic', 'right hand man'...
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  • Drazen Pehar
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    thanks. I considered that direction - including Durkheim etc. That's fine except it's more about society at large. Thanks also for the lyrics. I use all cultural products, including some lines by Bachmann in A most wanted man (2014).
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