What I want to emphasise is the unrecognised power of words, the value of the individual word. The paper is intended to do two main things. Second, to assess the relevance for each of the areas considered of the motor theory of language evolution and function.
Language is a powerful instrument.
It is used in many different ways and constitutes one of the principal forces controlling and forming human behaviour. Besides its most familiar and normally most discussed use, communication, language is important through its use in one's private thought, in science and in oratory, in poetry, in philosophy - and perhaps most remarkably in techniques of hypnosis. The paper is intended to do two main things. Second, to assess the relevance for each of the areas considered of the motor theory of language evolution and function. The art of speaking eloquently.