ATTENTION AND LANGUAGE

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  • Thiemo Breyer (UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG) UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG

Abstract

Attention is often regarded as a process belonging to the sphere of perception. The relationship between attention and language is rarely addressed in philosophy. I argue that there is a circular process of attention informing language and language informing attention in experience. Attention is the prerequisite for demonstrative reference and the grasp of general concepts. Attentional modifications of experience take place in a context of pre-understanding that is always already shaped by language in form of our prejudices and previous judgments about objects in a certain object domain. As a social medium, language also shapes our attentional behaviour by way of instruction and the learning of social norms and manners. KEY WORDS: Reference. Horizontality. Pre-understanding. Instruction. Phenomenology.

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Breyer (UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG), T. (2009). ATTENTION AND LANGUAGE. Intuitio, 2(1), 245–256. Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/intuitio/article/view/5438

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2009)

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