Language : the cultural tool / Daniel L. Everett.

By:

Everett, Daniel Leonard

Publication details: New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 351 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780307378538
0307378535

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

400 23

LOC classification:

P35 .E913 2012

Contents:

The gift of Prometheus -- Problems. Language as a social tool ; From fire to communication ; Crossing the communication threshold ; Does Plato have a problem? -- Solutions. Universals and faculties ; How to build a language ; The platforms for language -- Applications. Aristotle's answer : interaction and the construction of cultural sighs ; Language the tool -- Variations. Language, culture, and thinking ; You drink. You drive. You go to jail. Cultural effects on grammar ; Welcome to the Freak Show -- Grammars of happiness -- Appendix. Extract from Plato's "Meno."

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-337) and index.

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