How acquainting shows verbally [An article from: Language Sciences]

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A central tenet of the integrational view of language and communication is an anchoring in the acting and integrating behaviour of the communicants themselves. In this way the integrational approach has a certain phenomenological slant. What happens when this approach is combined with a 'psychology of linguistic exertion' based upon the descriptions of the stream of thought, and of conception (>acquainting) by William James? Text-examples taken from an internet site for dieters illustrate the combined Jamesian and integrational approach in practice. Some of the examples are also specifically related to some of William James' classical psychological observations.