Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language

By:

Dessalles, Jean-Louis

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 2009Description: 388pISBN:

9780199563463

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

401 DES

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Item location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	NIMA Knowledge Centre	9th Floor Reading Zone	General	401 DES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		M0027574

Total holds: 0

Browsing Institute of Management shelves, Collection: General Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous	No cover image available				No cover image available			Next
Previous	398.9 GRA The Art of Worldly Wisdom	400 BLO Introducing Language in USE: A Coursebook	400 DEB The De Bono Code Book: Going Beyond The Limits of Language	401 DES Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language	401 LYO Emergence of Communication and Language	401.41 LIE Narrative Research: Reading, Analysis and Interpretation	401.43 DEE Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness	Next

1. Animal and human communication 2. Culture, languages, and language 3. The biological roots of language 4. Misapprehensions about the origins of language 5. Language as an evolutionary curiosity 6. The local optimally of language 7. Putting sounds together 8. Protolanguage 9. The mechanics of syntax 10. Syntax and meaning 11. The structure of meanings 12. The emergence of meaning 13. Conversation behaviour 14. Language as information 15. The birth of argumentation 16. Language as an evolutionary paradox 17. The political origins of language 18. Epilogue.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.