Page |72 vocal communication plays an important even when we have strong empathic role in the social connection and responses, we can distinguish such behavior of a great number of vertebrate created experiences from those that species. Thus while human vocal occur in the real world. The stronger the communication is enhanced substantially language, the richer the imagery, the in face-to-face interaction, the evolution more intense the delivery, the more of speech has resulted in a system that salient the mentally created experience. can function even in the absence of One impact of language may be to create direct visual observation. The sound of real feelings and sensations, imagined a threat or warning or distress can have movement and behavior.’ When substantial impact even at a distance language hurts us through criticism, from the speaker. rejection or insult, it may do so by Social impact and embodied language activating our experiences of real pain. When we are soothed by language, it Many animals use vocalizations may produce the same kind of endorphin to maintain social group structure and to effect that placebo treatments can provide information relevant to a group. invoke. When language binds us Even very young children use the way together, it may do so by creating the people speak as a marker of their social kind of shared emotional states that affiliation. Such vocalizations are characterize empathy. typically not viewed as symbolic forms ae : In many respects, the linguistic that must be decoded and interpreted. 2 er view of language use does not engage Instead these vocalizations are mapped ; . ; , ; these ways in which language functions. onto internal states more directly, much Linguistics treats | ‘stin as human laughter may be. Although MBUISHICS teas language as CONSISINE linouj , of patterns of symbols divorced from inguists and psychologists have often 1 as ; 5 : their origins in a human mouth, almost tried to differentiate human language :