origin of language

is a thing invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions so that we might believe in them.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions perhaps so that we could believe in them. Miguel de Unamuno

is to be discovered in the abstract signs that formed in language for feelings that gradually developed as an expedient between two individuals who observed each other's wants or fear of various objects.

In Condillac's version of the primal dialogue, two children, 'after repeated observation of each other, began to recognise that certain spontaneous cries and movements signified their want or fear of various familiar objects'. They then inventedarbitrary, voluntarily presented, signs for these feelings and, 'as their dialogues become increasingly elaborate, the two children also developed their powers of thinking

is to be discovered in the fact that nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues and they found it useful to give names to things.

Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them. Lucretius

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origin of language