Book 2008

Origins of human communication

6 readers

Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 2008

Origin
Animal communication
Language and languages
Language and languages, origin
Historical linguistics
Language

"In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction."--Inside jacket.