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Our everyday lived experience of language is that it is a tool for communication. For us, language is like the Mason’s stone, the painter’s brush, and the programmer’s code: we viscerally have language as that which helps us get things done. In the humdrum of our daily life we use words in a myriad ways to communicate diverse things in countless circumstances. Language is lived as that which we command to do most of what we do: we experience language as the tool to ask for cereal instead of toast, to inquire for more detail on the task assigned at work, and to facilitate debate over dinner with our friends. Similarly, as students of the human world we are ever in search of the perfect word (the perfect meaning) to communicate our interpretation. In all these ways we experience and think of language as a tool for describing human action.
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Coyle, M.J. (2014). Expanding Deviance toward Difference. In: The Death and Resurrection of Deviance. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137303806_5
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