“On a practical, everyday level, we all know that we do not reliably make people understand exactly what we mean. […] Misunderstandings regularly arise, despite our best efforts, […] but variations in interpretation are not always “misunderstandings”. […] How otherwise could there be new interpretations of Shakespeare’s plays, and why else are we interested in them? […] It is the inherent ambiguity and adaptability of language as a meaning-making system that makes the relationship between language and thinking so special.” (pp. 5-6)
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