Language Everett Daniel Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University
Language Everett Daniel Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or lost, and shows significant variation across cultures. Language…
Specifikacia Language Everett Daniel Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University
Language Everett Daniel Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University
Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or lost, and shows significant variation across cultures. 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. It's as essential to survival as fire - and, like fire, is found in all human societies.
Fusing adventure, anthropology, linguistics and psychology, and drawing on Everett's pioneering research with the Amazonian Pirahas, Language argues that language is embedded within - and is inseparable from - its specific culture. Rather, it's a cultural tool which varies much more across different societies than the innateness view suggests. This book is like a fire that will generate much light.
And much heat.