İnner Language

I like the word 'inner laguage'...But I don t understand why I shuld study so long for sth I have already known as a child...:-)

‘The fundamental proposition of Fodor s model is that we think in a special inner language, often referred to as ‘mentalese’ (Fodor 1975). Mentalese is not an equivalent of the language we speak (e.g. French or German), but prior to it. Our capacity for mentalese is not something we acquire or learn, it is an innate capacity of our brains. Like other languages, mentalese is medium-independent. Thus, there are no written or spoken words in our heads; the language is implemented in our neural structure.’ S 62 'Problems with Representation' (Complexity and Po...) Paul Cillers

(1975) THE LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT, Thomas Y. Crowell Co. (Paperback, Harvard University Press.)