How Language Began: The Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention
Autor Daniel Everetten Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781781253939
ISBN-10: 1781253935
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: c. 60 half-tone and line printed in text
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1781253935
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: c. 60 half-tone and line printed in text
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Daniel Everett worked in the Amazon jungles of Brazil for over 30 years, among more than a dozen different tribal groups. He has published extensively on language and culture and is one of the world's most influential thinkers in both fields. His Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes was selected by Blackwell's bookstores as one of the best of 2009, was an 'editor's choice' of the Sunday Times and has been the subject of a film and a play. He is currently Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Recenzii
Very few books on the biological and cultural origin of humanity can be ranked as classics. I believe that Daniel Everett's How Language Began will be one of them.
How Language Began occupies a rare literary space that explains complex issues clearly to general readers while being an original contribution to scholarship...the arguments he marshals and insights he provides are impressive...anyone interested in language would gain from reading this book.
Ambitious...the subject-matter is completely enthralling...Everett is at the very top of his intellectual game.
Important and fascinating
Everett is skilled at leavening an intellectually challenging treatise with humor ... A worthy book for general readers
When I first became interested in cultural evolution, cognitive revolutionaries would say that Noam Chomsky had proved that an innate language acquisition device was the key to linguistics. Daniel Everett is a leader of the counterrevolution that is putting culture and cultural evolution back at the center of linguistics, and cognition more generally, where I think it belongs. How Language Began is an accessible account of the case for a culture-centered theory of language.
Praise for Language: The Cultural Tool:'A book whose importance is almost impossible to overstate.
Revelatory. There is nothing about humans that is quite as astonishing as language.
Impressively modest and reasoned.
The most important - and provocative - anthropological field work ever undertaken.
Praise for Don't Sleep, There are Snakes:'A worldwide bestseller that finds no competition from linguistic researchers.
A remarkable book. It is written with an immediacy even a Piraha might envy, and its conjunction of physical and intellectual adventure is irresistible.
How Language Began occupies a rare literary space that explains complex issues clearly to general readers while being an original contribution to scholarship...the arguments he marshals and insights he provides are impressive...anyone interested in language would gain from reading this book.
Ambitious...the subject-matter is completely enthralling...Everett is at the very top of his intellectual game.
Important and fascinating
Everett is skilled at leavening an intellectually challenging treatise with humor ... A worthy book for general readers
When I first became interested in cultural evolution, cognitive revolutionaries would say that Noam Chomsky had proved that an innate language acquisition device was the key to linguistics. Daniel Everett is a leader of the counterrevolution that is putting culture and cultural evolution back at the center of linguistics, and cognition more generally, where I think it belongs. How Language Began is an accessible account of the case for a culture-centered theory of language.
Praise for Language: The Cultural Tool:'A book whose importance is almost impossible to overstate.
Revelatory. There is nothing about humans that is quite as astonishing as language.
Impressively modest and reasoned.
The most important - and provocative - anthropological field work ever undertaken.
Praise for Don't Sleep, There are Snakes:'A worldwide bestseller that finds no competition from linguistic researchers.
A remarkable book. It is written with an immediacy even a Piraha might envy, and its conjunction of physical and intellectual adventure is irresistible.