projected realit
y: a mental representation of reality as construed by the human
mind. While our
conceptualisations
are unlimited in scope, language merely
provides
prompts
for the construction of conceptualisations. Language also serves
an
interactive function
; we use it to
communicate
. Language allows us to
perform
speech acts
, or to exhibit
expressivity
and
affect
. Language can also be
used to create scenes or contexts; hence, language has the ability to invoke
experiential
frames
. Secondly, we examined the evidence for a linguistic system,
introducing the notion of a conventional
linguistic unit
, which may be a
morpheme
, a
word
, a string of words, or a sentence. We introduced the notion of
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