Language : the cultural tool / Daniel L. Everett.
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TextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 351 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780307378538
- 0307378535
- 400 23
- P35 .E913 2012
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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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