# How Language Works: Mind, Meaning, and the Human World

**Author:** Dan Herbatschek

**Short description:** A sweeping inquiry into how language makes thought shareable, memory cumulative, identity narratable, and human worlds possible.

**Core themes:** mind, meaning, symbols, generativity, culture, power, selfhood, and civilization.

**Suggested media angles:**
- Why language is more than communication
- How words give shape to thought and feeling
- How symbolic systems create institutions and shared reality
- Why the ordinary act of speaking is one of humanity’s deepest mysteries

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