ABSTRACT
Now that we have studied the form and behavior of many speech-elements of the stream of speech in isolation, it is necessary, even in an introductory study of the dynamics of language, to consider the total phenomenon of behavior, of which the stream of speech and its elements are but a part. Without the background of the speaker’s heredity, physical organization, social groups, and his world of feeling and perception, all of which are part and parcel of all his behavior, many of the phenomena of his speech are not understandable. For in these various portions of his total experience lie the impelling causes of his speaking and the material of his discourse; conversely, the stream of his speech and that of his fellows profoundly influences his total be-havior. It is with this larger aspect of Dynamic Philology that we shall be concerned in this, the last chapter, of our investigation.
