The Gift in the Heart of Language: The Maternal Source of Meaning

by Genevieve Vaughan

The author offers a paradigm-shifting view of the structure of material and verbal communication, based on the mother-child experience and confirmed by recent research in infant psychology. This view justifies a relational epistemology that informs the material gift economy, as well as the structure of language itself. Provisioning economies give value to the receivers, and the circulation of gifts consolidates community. Understanding language as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8869770125
• ISBN13: 9788869770128
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Mimesis
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"