“The soul converses with herself”: Making sense of self talk
Bart Geurts (University of Nijmegen)
Tuesday 22 November 2016, 11:00–12:30
1.17 Dugald Stewart Building
People talk a lot. Much of that talk is addressed at others, but people talk to themselves as well, and though self talk has long been recognised as a key facet of our mental lives, its workings remain poorly understood. I argue that the phenomenon of self talk has profound consequences for our understanding of human communication, as well as the ways in which human cognition and cognitive development are grounded in communicative competence, and I present an account of communication which explains how that is possible.