Words are tools which depend on social, spatio-temporal, and linguistic environments, have a history, and produce psychological, political, and paradigmatic effects. The stakes implicit in their conservation and classification are high and, despite modern-day technology and the primacy of the image, they remain, as Descartes would have it, the mark of humanity.
ISBN:978-2-8124-2113-6
ISSN: 2286-136X
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-2113-6.p.0087
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
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Keyword: origin of languages, word-tool, Descartes, Condillac, Leibniz