I Thought I Said

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I Thought I Said is written by Vyvyan Evans and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199589844 (ISBN 10) and 9780199589845 (ISBN 13).

Language allows us to express our thoughts and ideas. Every day we use language to tell others - friends, colleagues, family members, casual acquaintances, lovers - whether we are happy or sad, to convey whether we are angry or bored. We use language to compose an email, to purchase groceries in the supermarket, to buy a bus ticket. We need language to propose marriage, to argue, or to declare undying love. We use it to make requests and demands, to signal ourwishes and desires, to say whether we prefer our coffee with or without sugar. Language is indispensable in making public our thoughts. But while we use language to get our thoughts across, the way language is patterned in expressing these thoughts also provides us with insight into the very nature ofour minds. In I Thought I Said Vyvyan Evans demonstrates the ways in which language reveals how we think. Language can illuminate, to the scientist, the way in which thought is structured. It reveals underlying features of mind design.