But we're way beyond waves or particles here. Bremen tries to find a way to limit the power of the concept to words. Gail stares at him.
People think without words and the mind works with concepts instead of words.
Language, on the other hand, is a means of expressing these thoughts. Here the use of language as a medium for expression of thought begins to break down. In As I Lay Dying , Faulkner disembodies the language from his characters in order to create the thoughts and ideas of the characters in the readers mind. He uses his own language which can then create these thought's in the mind of the reader. We know the language isn't coming directly from the characters because their narrations use much more complex vocabulary and syntax than does their speech.