Making of Language - Softcover
An introduction to the evolution of language from gestural communication to the development of complex syntax. Beaken synthesizes advances in scientific knowledge based on archaeological and fossil evidence, primate study and new techniques in historical language analysis, and re-examines language origins from the point of view of a linguist. Countering Pinker's The Language Instinct, Beaken refutes claims for an innate biological capacity for language and demonstrates that both the origin and form of language can be explained in terms of human activity. He shows how human beings made their own language in the process of collective labour and the social interactions and relations which surround the immediate tasks for the survival of human groups.
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Dr Mike Beaken is a lecturer in Communication Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.
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Of the first edition: '[Beaken's] pioneering introduction to the question provides one of the clearest overviews, from a Marxist perspective, of the origins of language and the social nature of language' Marnie Holborow.
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- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 074860717X
- ISBN 13 9780748607174
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages196
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