Thinking and speaking
pp. 147-157
Abstract
The relation between thinking and speaking tends to be thought and theorized in causal terms: speakers express what they have thought or are thinking. That is, speech is theorized as a copy of thought even though thought itself may be theorized in terms of inner speech. The verb "to express' – as a live or dead metaphor – indeed portrays this relation as one in which some content of a container is pressed out. The verb etymologically derives from the Latin ex-, out + pressāre, to press, to squeeze.
Publication details
Published in:
Roth Wolff-Michael (2012) First-person methods: toward an empirical phenomenology of experience. Rotterdam, SensePublishers.
Pages: 147-157
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6091-831-5_10
Full citation:
Roth Wolff-Michael (2012) „Thinking and speaking“, In: W. Roth (ed.), First-person methods, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 147–157.