The Origins of Meaning: Language in the Light of Evolution
- ISBN-10
- 0199207852
- ISBN-13
- 9780199207855
- Series
- The Origins of Meaning
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 388
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-08-30
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- James R. Hurford, James Raymond Hurford
Description
"In this engagingly written and broadly interdisciplinary book, Jim Hurford integrates findings from ethology and neuroscience with concepts from philosophy and linguistics to make an explicit and convincing case that animals have rich concepts, and thus that meaning predated language. This is a work of broad scope and significance." W. Tecumesh Fitch, Lecturer in Psychology, University of St. Andrews,from the bookjacket.
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