Most people experience some degree of apprehension when speaking in public. Perhaps you’ve been in situations when someone in the audience is either a critical parent or a demanding boss, or you’re simply not prepared.
To Speak Is to Create: How Human Beings Became Linguistic Architects.
The Generative Power of the Word. Language is not just descriptive—it is performative and generative. It doesn’t mirror reality; it creates it. We literally speak our world into existence. When we say, “This is how things are,” we’re not observing a fixed reality—we’re generating it in real-time.