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The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved

Door Robbins Burling

Categorie
Taalkunde & Woordenboeken
Boeknummer
#348324-VC38
Titel
The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved
Auteur
Burling, Robbins
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2007
ISBN10
0199214034
ISBN13
9780199214037
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo. Studies in the Evolution of Language.
Samenvatting
Traces language back to its earliest origins among our distant ape-like forbears several million years ago. This book examines the qualities of mind and brain needed to support the operations of language; investigates the first links between signs, sounds, and meanings; explores the beginnings and prehistories of vocabulary and grammar; and more.

In this mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing - and the most readable - account of the origins of language yet published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other, and he gives us a deeper understanding of the nature of language itself. The author traces language back to its earliest origins among our distant ape-like forbears several million years ago. He offers a n... (Lees verder)ew account of the route by which we acquired our defining characteristic and explores the changing nature of language as it developed through the course of our evolution. He considers what the earliest forms of communication are likely to have been, how they worked, and why they were deployed. He examines the qualities of mind and brain needed to support the operations of language and the advantages they offered for survival and reproduction. He investigates the beginnings and prehistories of vocabulary and grammar; and connects work in fields extending from linguistics, sign languages, and psychology to palaeontology, evolutionary biology, and archaeology. And he does all this in a style that is crystal-clear, constantly enlivened by wit and humour.
Pagina's
286
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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