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Word Is Not What It Means : Poems by Dillon Allen-Perez (2021, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherRyan K. Allen

ISBN-10173563641X

ISBN-139781735636412

eBay Product ID (ePID)19050406859

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SubjectGeneral

Publication Year2021

Publication NameWord Is Not What It Means : Poems

LanguageEnglish

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaNature, Poetry

AuthorDillon Allen-Perez

FormatTrade Paperback

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

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SynopsisYou can sit on the dirt, but you can not sit on the word "dirt". If anyone tries to tell you that this is not true, that a word is what it means, tell them to say the word "hamburger". Then tell them to eat it. They will still be hungry no matter how good it feels to say that word. Human languages are composed of signs and symbols which represent, or point toward, things that exist in the real world. Whether the thing referred to is abstract or concrete, the word itself is never the thing that it means. If words and the things that they represent were one and the same, it wouldn't be possible for more than one language to exist. The fact that so many human languages exist illustrates the issue at hand. Linguists of the world have investigated so many of the wondrous mysteries of language and uncovered fascinating insights. However, many questions still remain unanswered. Where, exactly, did human language begin? Did it burst about instantaneously? Or, did it develop gradually from earlier forms of communication? How different are human languages from the communication techniques of other animals? How do human brains acquire first, second, and third languages? To what extent can other animals acquire, or be taught, the human languages? In this book, I will answer none of these questions. Instead, this is a collection of poems I have created throughout my years of schooling-from a lost community college student to a language teacher fresh out of graduate school-as I have searched for my own language. There is a little bit of everything across these poems that bursted, or gradually emerged, from the pages of my notebooks. Each of us has our own language. In our heads, they are separate from the material world. When we share our words, we create human language.