• Language as a Model for Social Life: A Critique
    Dissertation, Yale University. 1987.
    My purpose in the dissertation is to critique the Linguistic Model of social life. On this model, the interpersonal interactions that comprise social existence are modeled on one particular kind of social encounter--viz., conversation. The assumption is that social interactions are all essentially instances of communication. The model maintains that all forms of human interaction can be understood using the same categories, distinctions, and strategies that we use to understand speech and conver…Read more
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    Welcome To My Philosophy Class
    Philosophy Now 71 22-23. 2009.