THE ROUGH GROUND – TERRY EAGLETON

McIntyre, Dependent Rational Animal

Uttering syntactically impeccable sentences at regular intervals is not exhibiting a capacity to use language…the use of language is always embedded in forms of social practice and to understand adequately what is said on particular occasions in a given language one must have some at least of the abilities of a participant in the relevant form of social practice.

Words can have powerful social implications.

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