ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I will make a larger claim: language is not merely a conceptual tool that mediates us and the world but also a larger body of signifying relations without which even the ontological categories of world, subjects, etc. can’t come into currency. It is important, for me, that we reinterpret the nature of language properly so that we bring into our foreground the multiple ‘revealings’ that language can enable. Properly understood, language can not only reveal immediate social and embodied existence but also our historical and mythological imaginations. That this deep sourcing of language is possible stands opposed to many of the current takes on the role of language and communication in the aetiology of social and political problems.
