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1Department of Linguistics, UCL, London WC1N 1PF, UK. robyn.carston@ucl.ac.ukhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/people/robyn-carston.
Abstract:
While the metarepresentational structure of ostensive communication may explain the unleashing of human expression, it neither explains the open-endedness of the thoughts expressed/communicated, nor how the multiply embedded nature of the metarepresentational structure invoked arose. These both require the recursivity of human language, a capacity which must be distinguished from external (public) languages and their use in communication.
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