Communication, creole, and conceptualization

The communication contrasts between nonstandard (including creole) & related standard lang, between SC linguistic codes (whatever they are), & between child & adult language are suggested as having a common origin - ie, the fact that natural language permits two extremes of communication format. These two extremes are described. To account for meaning equivalences across the extremes of communication formats, & indeed meaning equivalences generally, it is hypothesized that conceptualization in the human mind operates within a particular set of primitive awarenesses or concepts that are not synonymous or coterminous with the categories of formal logic. In the latter respect, the hypothesis diverges away from suggestions embodied in some recent work on the conceptual bases of meaning. The suggested set of awarenesses are further hypothesized as having a structure resembling that of natural lang, but differing in certain important respects, which are indicated. Some implications of these hypotheses, & the fact that further investigation is necessary concerning the rules that would describe the movement from conceptualization to natural language communication are suggested. The hypothesis of a necessary movement from a level of conceptualization to that of natural language does not accord with certain recent suggestions that such movement has been negligible in creole langs. 2 Tables, 41 References. AA