T.S. Eliot hiding in Burke

Deep in the comments attached to "Terministic Screens" lies a quote from T.S Eliot that I have found very enlightening, especially at a time when Re/presentation is on my mind. T.S Eliot writes, "In any knowledge prior to speech the object is not so much an identity recognized as such as it is a similar way of acting; the identity is rather lived out than known. What we are here concerned with is the explicit recognition of an object as such, and I do not believe this occurs without the beginnings of speech...Our only way of showing that we are attending to an object is to show that it and our self are independent entities, and to do this we must have names... We have no objects without language." 
The idea here is very reminiscent of Burke's description of mans use of Dramatisic language. Burke says "an animal comes into being that does happen to have this particular aptitude [use of language], the various tribal idioms are unquestionably developed by their use as instruments in the tribe’s way of living (the practical role of symbolism in what the anthropologist, Malinowski, has called “context of situation”). Such considerations are involved in what I mean by the ‘dramatistic,’ stressing language as an aspect of “action,” that is, as “symbolic action.” It seems that Eliot is suggesting that the identity of the object is not something that is merely ascribed to what the object is, but rather what the object does. In order to differentiate between these actions, we use language to identify them. Burke incorporates this idea into his theory of logology, by stressing the importance in the symbolic action required to help human societies function.