Download or read book Social and Functional Approaches to Language and Thought written by Maya Hickmann and published by Brill. This book was released on 1987 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most fundamental and recurring issues in the social sciences--the relation between language and thought--is examined in this work from a broad and coherent interdisciplinary perspective. Many of the great historical issues are also addressed and newly examined such as: the multifunctionality of language, the role of "natural logic" in the structuring of linguistic rules, and the place of linguistic disambiguation and repair in particular cultures.