... for societal discourse-- and society itself-- is language, whether written or spoken. It is through language that humans are able to communicate with one another; without communication (spoken language and meaningful symbols), discourse and society as we know it would not exist. We must draw on the ... identity to account for the origin of communication. In a linguistics class last semester, we studied Noam Chomsky's theory of Generative Grammar. His theory can be summarized thus: every child is born with his/her brain "hardwired" for learning language, and will learn the lexicon (voca...

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