Conceptualizing a Message to Be Conveyed Two central questions e Where do ideas come from? Noteworthy efforts made, but the question remains intractable (Osgood 1971; Osgood bock 1977, Sridhar 1989) o In what form do ideas exist before they are put into words o It is generally agreed that some form of mentalese exists that is, a representational system distinct from language The notion is that thoughts take form in mentalese and are then translated into linguistic form, but there is little agreement as to the properties of this prelinguistic mental representation(see Fodor f 975 Very little is known about this process(p. 197)Conceptualizing a Message to Be Conveyed ◼ Two central questions ◆ Where do ideas come from? ⧫ Noteworthy efforts made, but the question remains intractable (Osgood 1971; Osgood & Bock 1977; Sridhar 1989) ◆ In what form do ideas exist before they are put into words? ⧫ It is generally agreed that some form of “mentalese” exists – that is, a representational system distinct from language. ⧫ The notion is that thoughts take form in mentalese and are then translated into linguistic form, but there is little agreement as to the properties of this prelinguistic mental representation (see Fodor 1975) ◼ Very little is known about this process (p.197)