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Every day every human has countless conversations with other humans and within her own mind. We talk and think about wars, employment, entertainment, sports, jobs, the environment, politics, religion, feelings, food, health, relationships, etc., etc., etc. Humans live in conversations; each of us is a walking conversations interacting with other individual, group, social, national, and world conversations. The distinguishing feature of humans is our conversations. We are language through and through.
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Hvolbek, R.H. (2013). An Intellectual Interlude. In: Re-Calling the Humanities. Educational Futures. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-314-0_5
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