Structure, Meaning, and Purpose

Jim Mason
2 min readOct 12, 2021

How we describe and build our human reality with language

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Most of what we say and write has purpose — the why of it — what we are intending to accomplish by saying it or writing it.

What we say and write also has structure — the discrete components, including phonemes or letters and words that are used in it, and how they are arranged in temporal or spatial sequence to build…

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Jim Mason

I study language, cognition, and humans as social animals. You can support me by joining Medium at https://jmason37-80878.medium.com/membership