Language and Species

Name: Language and Species
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226046112
Price: 5250 KES
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ISBN: 9780226046112

by Derek Bickerton

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0226046117

ISBN-13 9780226046112

Publisher The University of Chicago Press

Imprint University of Chicago Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 15th, 1992

Print length 305 Pages

Weight 410 grams

Dimensions 15.70 x 22.00 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy of language Historical & comparative linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, etc

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Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk," the "two-word" stage of small children, and pidgin languages, and on recent discoveries in paleoanthropology, Bickerton shows how a primitive "protolanguage" could have offered Homo erectus a novel ecological niche. He goes on to demonstrate how this protolanguage could have developed into the languages we speak today. "You are drawn into [Bickerton's] appreciation of the dominant role language plays not only in what we say, but in what we think and, therefore, what we are."—Robert Wright, New York Times Book Review"The evolution of language is a fascinating topic, and Bickerton's Language and Species is the best introduction we have."—John C. Marshall, Nature

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