Let us see how Barker sums up Rorty's contribution”

•  “The formation of meaning and culture as formed in the ‘joint action' of social relationships”. It is not that the formation of meaning and culture is only happen in the rarified realm of simply language but it happens in culture, society and in human relationships.

•  The constitutive and action-orientation of language in the context of social dialogue”. Here we see that Rorty is avoiding the perspective that sees culture as completely teual. He also emphasize the importance of society as culture, as not just a backdrop, but more in a dialectical process.

•  The importance of the social practice of reason-giving in the justification of action.

•  To think through cross-cultural communication in terms of the learning of language skills”. It becomes palpable from this statement that we must know language skills to communicate with others.

•  The variability of accounts to which any state of affairs can be put.

•  Culture as involving agreement, contestation and conflict over meanings and actions”.

It is not that once the language trap is broken everything would be without conflict; rather we have to live with the fact that culture would always involve a conflict and contestations.