The language game : how improvisation created language and changed the world
Christiansen, Morten H., 1963-2023
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What is language? Why do we have it? Where does it come from? Why does that matter? Upending centuries of scholarship (including, most recently, Chomsky and Pinker) 'The Language Game' shows how people learn to talk not by acquiring fixed meanings and rules, but by picking up, reusing, and recombining countless linguistic fragments in novel ways.
Main title:
The language game : how improvisation created language and changed the world / Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater.
Author:
Christiansen, Morten H., 1963-, authorChater, Nick, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2023.
Collation:
368 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2022.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781804991008 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
401
Language:
English
BRN:
2623191
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