The Truth about Language: What It Is and Where It Came from

by Michael C. Corballis

Book Overview

Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident--a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a trajectory that would see their brains (and the products of those brains) become increasingly complex.

But as Michael C. Corballis shows in The Truth about Language, it's time to reconsider those assumptions. Language, he argues, is not the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022628719X
• ISBN13: 9780226287195
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 8.9"