The Origins of Meaning

by James R. Hurford

Book Overview

In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to be expressed as language. He reviews a mass of evidence to show how close some animals, especially primates and more especially apes, are to the brink of human language. Apes may not talk to us but they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199207852
• ISBN13: 9780199207855
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"