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The language game : how improvisation created language and changed the world (engelsk)
Af Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater (2022)
Language is perhaps humanity's most astonishing accomplishment and one that remains poorly understood. Upending centuries of scholarship (including, most recently, Chomsky and Pinker) this book shows how people learn to talk not by acquiring fixed meanings and rules, but by picking up, reusing, and recombining countless linguistic fragments in novel ways
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Type
Bog
Format
illustreret
Sprog
engelsk
Emneord
Emnetal
89.09
Beskrivelse
Indhold: The accidental invention that changed the world ; Language as charades ; The fleeting nature of language ; The unbearable lightness of meaning ; Linguistic order at the edge of chaos ; Language evolution without biological evolution ; Following in each other's footsteps ; Endless forms most beautiful ; The virtuous circle: brains, culture, and language ; Language will save us from the singularity
ISBN
9781541674981
Udgave
1. edition
Omfang
vii, 291 sider
Forlag
Basic
Målgruppe
alment niveauvoksenmaterialer