Origins of Human Communication
$70.86
- Paperback
408 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2010
Summary
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 (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the esp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262515207 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262515202 |
| Author: | Michael Tomasello |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Jean Nicod Lectures |
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“Underscoring the uniqueness of humans is all too easy. The challenge is to explain it in a naturalistic perspective. Michael Tomasello meets the challenge with his unique suite of competencies in animal and human psychology, and his ability to think and write with clarity and insight about complex issues. There is much to learn and much to think and also to argue about in this important book.”–Dan Sperber, Institut Jean Nicod – Dan Sperber
About The Author
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello is Codirector of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. He is the author of The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition and Constructing a Language- A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition.
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