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Language: The Cultural Tool

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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Everett Klappentext Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or lost, and shows significant variation across cultures. It's as essential to survival as fire - and, like fire, is found in all human societies. Language presents the bold and controversial idea that language is not an innate component of the brain, as has been famously argued by Chomsky and Pinker. Rather, it's a cultural tool which varies much more across different societies than the innateness view suggests.Fusing adventure, anthropology, linguistics and psychology, and drawing on Everett's pioneering research with the Amazonian Pirah¿ Language argues that language is embedded within - and is inseparable from - its specific culture. This book is like a fire that will generate much light. And much heat.A groundbreaking and controversial new theory about how we talk. Zusammenfassung Fusing adventure, anthropology, linguistics and psychology, and drawing on Everett's pioneering research with the Amazonian Pirahas, this book argues that language is embedded within - and is inseparable from - its specific culture. It presents the controversial idea that language is not an innate component of the brain.

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Authors Daniel Everett, Everett Daniel
Publisher Profile Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 21.03.2013
 
EAN 9781846682681
ISBN 978-1-84668-268-1
No. of pages 351
Dimensions 129 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)

SCIENCE / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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