The Language Game
What is language? Why do we have it? Where does it come from? Why does that matter? Language is perhaps humanity's most astonishing capacity—and one that remains poorly understood. 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. Forget the language instinct—this is the story of how we make up language as we go.
- Publisher: Bantam Press
- Publication date: 14/04/2022
- ISBN: 9781787633490
- Page extent: 368
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 234 mm x 153 mm
Other titles you may like
