Is the way we think about language on the cusp of a revolution? After reading The LanguageMyth, it certainly looks as if a major shift is in progress, one that will open people's minds to liberating new ways of thinking about language. I came away excited. I found that words aren't so much things that can be limited by a dictionary definition but are encyclopaedic, pointing to sets of concepts. There is the intriguing notion that language will always be less rich than our ideas and there will always be things we cannot quite express. And there is the growing evidence that words are rooted in concepts built out of our bodily experience of living in the world.
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