Language is socially constructed and speaks through individuals

Evidence

If you aim for a universal character you may end up with a vague or dull or windy one. If you set out to write a typical character you’re likely to produce a caricature, because people are typical only in the generalized qualities that lump them together. Typical is the most provincial adjective in a writer’s vocabulary, signaling that you’re writing only for those who share your assumptions. A “typical” schoolgirl in Dar es Salaam is a very different type from one in San Francisco. Furthermore, every person is typical of many things successively or simultaneously. She may be in turn a typical schoolgirl, bride, divorcée, and feminist. He may be at one and the same time a typical New Yorker, math professor, doting father, and adulterer. It is in the confrontation and convolution of types that much of our individuality is produced. — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 284 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Knowledge production operates through socially grounded language; Speaking a language means assuming its entire culture and civilization.; Meaning arises from articulating linguistic systems rather than reflecting the world (+31 more)

Related

• Individuality emerges from the layering and clash of overlapping social types (similarity 0.86)
• Everyone is composed of multiple social identities that position them differently (similarity 0.83)
• Knowledge production operates through socially grounded language (similarity 0.81)
• Social relations reduce to structures of knowledge in Schutz’s extreme sociology (similarity 0.81)
• Uncritical worldviews make a single personality a composite of many historical layers (similarity 0.80)
• Clique-dominated society demands self-representation as a type rather than as an individual. (similarity 0.79)
• Individual identity is stabilized only within collective cultural networks (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Speaking a language means assuming its entire culture and civilization. #expands (0.70)
• Meaning arises from articulating linguistic systems rather than reflecting the world #corroborates (0.60)
• Linguistic thoughts can be heard as sounds rather than meanings #expands (0.55) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 221
• Individuality emerges from the layering and clash of overlapping social types #expands (0.55) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 284
• Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange #expands (0.50)
• The linguistic metaphor reorganizes how social practices are theorized across disciplines. #expands (0.50)