The Dawn of Language - The story of how we came to talk

An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity's greatest mysteries - the origins of language.

About the author

SVERKER JOHANSSON, Doctor of Philosophy in Physics and Master of Philosophy in Linguistics, was born 1961 in Lund, southern Sweden. He is a senior advisor at Dalarna University, has conducted research at CERN in Switzerland and participated in EVOLANG, the leading international conference for research on the origins and evolution of language, since 2006.
Through a bot that he programmed, Lsjbot, Johansson is behind an estimated 8% of all articles on Swedish Wikipedia, covering everything from fungi to municipalities in the Philippines.
FRANK PERRY's translations have won the Swedish Academy Prize for the introduction of Swedish literature abroad and the prize of the Writer's Guild of Sweden for drama translation. His translation of Lina Wolff's Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs was the 2017 winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and was awarded the triennial Bernard Shaw Prize for best literary translation from Swedish.

Summary

An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity's greatest mysteries - the origins of language.

Additional text

Women are central to the story of how humans began to use language, at least according to the fascinating hypothesis advanced by Swedish scientist Sverker Johansson in his magisterial The Dawn of Language . . . but there are many other twists and turns in this detective story of the deep past.

Product details

• Authors: Sverker Johansson, Johansson Sverker
• Assisted by: Frank Perry (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2021
• EAN: 9781529411393
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-1139-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 42 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, prehistory, HISTORY / World, PSYCHOLOGY / History, Social, group or collective psychology, Language: history and general works