“Homo sapiens is essentially, homo loquens, a speaking being, ‘speaking’ not in the sense (p1) in which parrots speak but in the sense of using sounds to convey meaning. This means that homo sapiens is really homo significans, a being who lives on expression and communication of meaning.” (p2)
Wierzbicka, Anna, English Speech Act Verbs: A semantic dictionary (Marrickville, Academic Press Australia, 1987)
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