Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special - Hardcover

Scott-Phillips, Thom

 
9781137334572: Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1137334576 ISBN 13: 9781137334572
Verlag: Red Globe Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective tell us about the nature of language and communication?

Drawing on a range of disciplines including cognitive science, linguistics, anthropology and evolutionary biology, Speaking Our Minds explains how language evolved and why we are the only species to communicate in this way.

Written by a rising star in the field, this groundbreaking book is required reading for anyone interested in understanding the origins and evolution of human communication and language.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thom Scott-Phillips is a research fellow in Evolutionary and Cognitive Anthropology, at Durham University, UK.

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Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective tell us about the nature of language and communication?

Drawing on a range of disciplines including cognitive science, linguistics, anthropology and evolutionary biology, Speaking Our Minds explains how language evolved and why we are the only species to communicate in this way.

Written by a rising star in the field, this groundbreaking book is required reading for anyone interested in understanding the origins and evolution of human communication and language.

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Verlag
Red Globe Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1137334576
ISBN 13 
9781137334572
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
212
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