Based on the idea that the "distant pre-verbal past is still present in live speech", this volume argues that phonetic, syntactic and semantic rule transgressions are governed by a universal iconic apparatus, a sort of "anti-grammar" or "proto-grammar". This proto-grammar enables the speaker to express preconscious and subconscious mental contents that could not be conveyed by means of the grammar of any language. Secondary messages, generated by the proto-grammar are integrated into the primary grammatical messages. The two messages whose structural and semantic divergence represents a chronological distance of hundreds of thousands of years, constitute a dialectic unity which characterize natural languages. The book aims to show that this evolutive approach offers a different, perhaps clearer, understanding of questions related to dynamic synchrony, vocal and verbal style, poetic language and language change.
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