Language and Species

Name: Language and Species
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ISBN: 9780226046112

ISBN-10: 0226046117

ISBN-13: 9780226046112

Edition: 1992

Authors: Derek Bickerton

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Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk," the "two-word" stage of small children, and pidgin languages, and on recent discoveries in paleoanthropology, Bickerton shows how a primitive "protolanguage" could have offered Homo erectus a novel ecological niche. He goes on to demonstrate how this protolanguage could have developed into the languages we speak today. "You are drawn into [Bickerton's] appreciation of the dominant role language plays not only in what we say, but in what we think and, therefore, what we are."--Robert Wright, New York Times Book Review …

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 305
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.92" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Continuity Paradox



Language as Representation: The Atlas



Language as Representation: The Itineraries



The Origins of Representational Systems



The Fossils of Language



The World of the Protolanguage



From Protolanguage to Language



Mind, Consciousness, and Knowledge



The Nature of the Species


Epilogue


Notes


References


Index