ABSTRACT
How is our static and disjointed language produced from dynamic and continuous nonverbal thought? I tried in the previous chapter to show that thought is beyond language, that meaning lies beyond language, and that it is therefore impossible to distill the essence of words into words. But there is another problem. The study of language reveals that our spoken or written words have only a partial and indirect relation to meaning and thought in any case. Nevertheless, we talk and we write, and the words we produce are quite frequently understood by ourselves and by other people. The present chapter examines how the feat might be accomplished.
