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Ut doesn't the speaker also have to take into account the point of view of the listener and understander? Isn't i t possible that here, exactly, i s where the normative identity of a linguistic form comes into force? This, too, is not quite so. The basic task of understanding does not at all amount to recognizing the linguistic form used by the speaker as the familiar, "that very same," form, the way we distinctly recognize, for instance, a signal that we have not quite become used to or a form in a language that we do not know very well.
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The Vedic priest and the contemporary philologist-linguist are spellbound and held captive in their thinking about language by one and the same phenomenon-the phenomenon of alien, foreign-language word. 7. According to Vedic religion, the sacred word-in that usage to which it is put by the "gnostic" consecrated priest -becomes the sovereign of all Being) including both gods and men. The priest-gnostic is defined here as the one who commands the word-therein lies all his power. The doctrine to this effect is contained already in the Rig Veda.