Individuation of idiomatic sense in inner speech: integrating the Egger–Vygotsky hypothesis with embodied semantics and the default mode network
Cognitive Semiotics June 2, 2026 Francesco Verde
Abstract Investigating the semantic specificity of inner speech means addressing one of the most elusive and underexplored sides of language studies: the irreducible mark of subjectivity, long marginalised in 19th- and 20th-century comparative and structuralist approaches as a non-formalisable residue of analysis (Bergounioux. 2010. Les trois sources de la théorie de l’endophasie: phonologie,...