TSL—Part 3/6, "Language is SOCIAL"
Channel: esukhiaX
Date: 2017-09-04

2) Language is Social: Because language is communicative, it presupposes a sender giving a meaningful message to a receiver within a social context. This requires a set of shared experiences relating sound symbols (words) to their particular concepts: objects, experiences, emotions, and so on. Without these socially embedded, shared experiences, language is meaningless -- thus, to understand Tibetan language, we need to have Tibetan experiences. 

Originally presented at IATS 2016 (Norway).