Language the cultural tool
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307907028 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307907023 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (351 p.) : ill. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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." |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Language and culture Communication Sociolinguistics |
Genre: | Electronic books. |