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Language : the cultural tool / Daniel L. Everett.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 351 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780307378538
  • 0307378535
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 400 23
LOC classification:
  • P35 .E913 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
The gift of Prometheus -- Problems. Language as a social tool ; From fire to communication ; Crossing the communication threshold ; Does Plato have a problem? -- Solutions. Universals and faculties ; How to build a language ; The platforms for language -- Applications. Aristotle's answer : interaction and the construction of cultural sighs ; Language the tool -- Variations. Language, culture, and thinking ; You drink. You drive. You go to jail. Cultural effects on grammar ; Welcome to the Freak Show -- Grammars of happiness -- Appendix. Extract from Plato's "Meno."
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Books Junior High School Library 400 E26 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available HS000494

Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-337) and index.

The gift of Prometheus -- Problems. Language as a social tool ; From fire to communication ; Crossing the communication threshold ; Does Plato have a problem? -- Solutions. Universals and faculties ; How to build a language ; The platforms for language -- Applications. Aristotle's answer : interaction and the construction of cultural sighs ; Language the tool -- Variations. Language, culture, and thinking ; You drink. You drive. You go to jail. Cultural effects on grammar ; Welcome to the Freak Show -- Grammars of happiness -- Appendix. Extract from Plato's "Meno."

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