Don`t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle, Everett Daniel L.

Автор: Everett Daniel
Название: Don`t sleep, there are snakes
ISBN: 1846680409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846680403
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Описание: Although the author was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. This title shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers` startlingly original perceptions of the world.

Автор: Everett Daniel
Название: Language
ISBN: 1846682681 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846682681
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Описание: Fusing adventure, anthropology, linguistics and psychology, and drawing on Everett`s pioneering research with the Amazonian Pirahas, this book argues that language is embedded within - and is inseparable from - its specific culture. It presents the controversial idea that language is not an innate component of the brain.

Автор: Everett Daniel L.
Название: Language: The Cultural Tool
ISBN: 0307473805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307473806
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "The most important--and provocative--anthropological fieldwork ever undertaken." --Tom Wolfe

For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. In this bold and provocative study, linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language was invented by humans and can be reinvented or lost. He shows how the evolution of different language forms--that is, different grammar--reflects how language is influenced by human societies and experiences, and how it expresses their great variety. Combining anthropology, primatology, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and his own pioneering research with the Amazonian Pirah , and using insights from many different languages and cultures, Everett presents an unprecedented elucidation of this society-defined nature of language. In doing so, he also gives us a new understanding of how we think and who we are.