RSA Animate - Language as a Window into Human Nature (by theRSAorg)
This is wonderfully done — the animation vividly reinforces Pinker’s point about speech acts as encoding multiple levels of information by “exploding” out from the simplest, most direct meaning.
I liked the small The Graduate reference, which in retrospect seems all about Ben’s coming to terms with an adult world made up of indirect speech acts.
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I really enjoy the RSA animate videos. This one is about covert language. Why didn’t I know I like linguistics when I...
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