ABSTRACT
Language enables us to talk with each other. At the same time it enables us to talk about something. It provides us with not just a mode of interaction, but also with a capacity for representation.
In the previous chapter we considered some of the interpersonal possibilities of language. Here we turn (in the terms of Chapter 2) to the ideational possibilities of language. It is these which provide us with the means for apprehending and comprehending, to our selves and with others, the world in which we live.
