Language as a Blessing: How AI Threatens the Future of Humanity.
We are narrative beings. We have a story for everything. Our dominant language narrative, the one found in all disciplines, including communication studies, claims that language is a tool born of evolutionary necessity. In other words, evolutionary pressures supposedly made for the invention of lang...
| Published in: | Journal of Communication & Religion Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 98 - 112 |
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Religious Communication Association
Fall2024
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