TY  - BOOK
AU  - Everett,Daniel Leonard
TI  - Language: the cultural tool 
SN  - 9780307378538
AV  - P35 .E913 2012
U1  - 400 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pantheon Books
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - Communication
KW  - Sociolinguistics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-337) and index; 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."
ER  -