Social Origins of Language Sel: Ncs P

by Chris Knight

Book Overview

This book offers an exciting new perspective on the origins of language. Language is conceptualized as a collective invention, on the model of writing or the wheel, and the book places social and cultural dynamics at the centre of its evolution: language emerged and further developed in human communities already suffused with meaning and communication, mimesis, ritual, song and dance, alloparenting, new divisions of labour and revolutionary changes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199665338
• ISBN13: 9780199665334
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"