Meaning of languageness | Babel Free

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The quality of being a language.

uncountable

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“The issue⟳ of the languageness of the languages of art clears, moreover, if we turn⟳ from the aboutness of language to the special entityness of verbal-linguistic things, which, like⟳ art things, are entities just by virtue of being inferred as such from aspects of concreta filtered through a syntax and a semantics.”

“Much has been written about Synthetic Scots (e.g., McClure 1990; Purves 1997; Hart 2010), which was in effect an attempt⟳ at standardizing the vernacular in order⟳ to confer attributes of languageness upon it and make⟳ it appropriate for literary usage.”

“The most recent research⟳ suggests that many animal species do have⟳ a kind of "languageness" that is not exactly like⟳ human language, but which is not necessarily simpler or less successful as a communicative code.”

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