Origins of Human Communication

by Michael Tomasello

Book Overview

A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view.

Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262515202
• ISBN13: 9780262515207
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher