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Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle
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ISBN: 9781846680403 1846680409 Year: 2009 Publisher: London Profile

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Language : the cultural tool
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ISBN: 9781846682674 9781847654151 Year: 2012 Publisher: London Profile Books

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Language : the cultural tool
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ISBN: 9780307473806 0307473805 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Vintage Books,

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A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain--as most linguists do--but as an essential tool unique to each culture worldwide. For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. But linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language was invented by humans and can be reinvented or lost. He shows how the evolution of different language forms--that is, different grammar--reflects how language is influenced by human societies and experiences, and how it expresses their great variety. For example, the Amazonian Pirahã put words together in ways that violate our long-held under-standing of how language works, and Pirahã grammar expresses complex ideas very differently than English grammar does. Drawing on the Wari' language of Brazil, Everett explains that speakers of all languages, in constructing their stories, omit things that all members of the culture understand. In addition, Everett discusses how some cultures can get by without words for numbers or counting, without verbs for "to say" or "to give," illustrating how the very nature of what's important in a language is culturally determined. Combining anthropology, primatology, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and his own pioneering--and adventurous--research with the Amazonian Pirahã, and using insights from many different languages and cultures, Everett gives us an unprecedented elucidation of this society-defined nature of language. In doing so, he also gives us a new understanding of how we think and who we are.


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How language began : the story of humanity's greatest invention
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ISBN: 1781253935 9781781253939 Year: 2018 Publisher: London Profile Books

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In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? And what is it for? Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that language originated with Homo sapiens 150,000 years ago and that we have a 'language instinct'. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of fields, including linguistics, archaeology, biology, anthropology and neuroscience, he shows that our ancient ancestors, Homo erectus, had the biological and mental equipment for speech one and half million years ago, and that their cultural and technological achievements (including building ocean-going boats) make it overwhelmingly likely they spoke some kind of language. How Language Began sheds new light on language and culture and what it means to be human and, as always, Daniel Everett spices his account with incident and anecdote. His book is convincing, arresting and entertaining.


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Le monde ignoré des Indiens pirahãs
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ISBN: 2081211467 9782081211469 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris: Flammarion,

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Dark matter of the mind : the culturally articulated unconscious
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ISBN: 022652678X 9780226526782 Year: 2017 Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press,

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Language : the cultural tool
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ISBN: 9781846682681 1846682681 Year: 2013 Publisher: London: Profile books,

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Dark matter of the mind : the culturally articulated unconscious
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ISBN: 9780226070766 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. The University of Chicago Press

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How language began : the story of humanity's greatest invention
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ISBN: 9780871407955 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Liveright Publishing Corporation

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