ABSTRACT
Social reality is not merely described by language but emerges in it. To cite the great early 20th century U.S. logician and pragmatist, John Dewey (1916/1944), “Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication. There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication. Men live in a community in virtue of the things they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common” (p. 4, emphasis in original).
