The Language Puzzle
Autor Steven Mithenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 iun 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781541605381
ISBN-10: 1541605381
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 175 x 266 x 2 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
ISBN-10: 1541605381
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 175 x 266 x 2 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Notă biografică
Steven Mithen is Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Reading. He previously studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Universities of Sheffield, York and Cambridge, before joining the University of Reading. An award-winning archaeologist, Steven Mithen specialises in prehistoric hunter-gatherers and the earliest Neolithic farmers, with long-term field projects in southern Jordan and western Scotland. He is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New Scientist and the Guardian and has authored over 200 academic articles and books, including The Singing Neanderthals and After the Ice. He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004.
Recenzii
A tour de force of terse, fascinating clarity... A remarkable, vivid set piece: a montage that runs from the barks and coos of forest-dwelling primates to the grammatical written language you are reading now
Wonderfully evocative ... A highly original view of our musical origins
Takes the reader on a whirlwind journey through many disparate disciplines, generously dispersing interesting tidbits and ideas along the way
The most perspicacious portrait of the role of communication among our remote predecessors that I have ever encountered ... A landmark book
Mithen's detailed and engaging book, with its laser-like focus on the role of language, offers a fresh perspective on the human story
The Language Puzzle is a notable piece of scholarship that deserves to take a prominent place in the literature of the origins and evolution of language
Mithen's enthusiasm for words is apparent on every page of this excellent book... an easy, delightful reading experience
A fascinating history of ideas and a masterful synthesis of the latest insights from linguistics, archaeology, genetics, neuroscience and AI - providing us with a compelling theory of the evolution of language. The Language Puzzle is a tour de force
An epic achievement that, more than any other book out there, rises to the challenge of elucidating the immense complexity that underpinned the emergence and evolution of human language ... keeps the reader deliciously hanging on
A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language - written with Mithen's wonderful ability to combine deep insights with a story engagingly told
An authoritative, dense yet accessible synthesis, The Language Puzzle is a superbly up-to-date guide to the complex and variegated evolution of language. Encompassing a huge and multidisciplinary scope of knowledge and covering some 5 million years, this fascinating book shows that asking how and why we came to speak also means exploring what it is to be human
Relating the evolution of the human lineage while attempting to integrate linguistics, genetics, archeology, and semiotics in proposing a holistic explanation for language evolution is no small task. However, in this remarkably accessible narrative, Mithen weaves a thoughtful and engaging account across time, bodies, places, and materials. Whether or not one agrees, in total or in part, with the assumptions and assertions in the book, it offers a bounty of valuable insights and has much to teach us all
How humans acquired their most important and mysterious mental skill remains a fascinating mystery. Steven Mithen describes the leading clues from diverse sources so clearly that The Language Puzzle is a sleuth's equivalent to one-stop shopping. The origin of language is beginning to look like a solvable problem
The enduring mystery of how humans learned to speak [is] a romantic tale
Extraordinary ... a page-turning dive into the mysteries of human communication
Mithen ... combines lucid prose with a lifetime of experience in this compendious exploration of linguistics, anthropology, neuroscience, geography, genetics, and philosophy ... An expert education into "the most fundamental aspect of the modern mind
Fascinating ... In down-to-earth prose, Mithen weaves a wealth of genetic, linguistic, and paleoanthropological research into a coherent tapestry, with surprising revelations about Stone Age communication as well as present-day language ... A stimulating inquiry into the origins of language
Praise for The Singing Neanderthals:'Illuminating and thought-provoking
A book that has you making up your own theories about how grunts became speech and songs
Wonderfully evocative ... A highly original view of our musical origins
Takes the reader on a whirlwind journey through many disparate disciplines, generously dispersing interesting tidbits and ideas along the way
The most perspicacious portrait of the role of communication among our remote predecessors that I have ever encountered ... A landmark book
Mithen's detailed and engaging book, with its laser-like focus on the role of language, offers a fresh perspective on the human story
The Language Puzzle is a notable piece of scholarship that deserves to take a prominent place in the literature of the origins and evolution of language
Mithen's enthusiasm for words is apparent on every page of this excellent book... an easy, delightful reading experience
A fascinating history of ideas and a masterful synthesis of the latest insights from linguistics, archaeology, genetics, neuroscience and AI - providing us with a compelling theory of the evolution of language. The Language Puzzle is a tour de force
An epic achievement that, more than any other book out there, rises to the challenge of elucidating the immense complexity that underpinned the emergence and evolution of human language ... keeps the reader deliciously hanging on
A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language - written with Mithen's wonderful ability to combine deep insights with a story engagingly told
An authoritative, dense yet accessible synthesis, The Language Puzzle is a superbly up-to-date guide to the complex and variegated evolution of language. Encompassing a huge and multidisciplinary scope of knowledge and covering some 5 million years, this fascinating book shows that asking how and why we came to speak also means exploring what it is to be human
Relating the evolution of the human lineage while attempting to integrate linguistics, genetics, archeology, and semiotics in proposing a holistic explanation for language evolution is no small task. However, in this remarkably accessible narrative, Mithen weaves a thoughtful and engaging account across time, bodies, places, and materials. Whether or not one agrees, in total or in part, with the assumptions and assertions in the book, it offers a bounty of valuable insights and has much to teach us all
How humans acquired their most important and mysterious mental skill remains a fascinating mystery. Steven Mithen describes the leading clues from diverse sources so clearly that The Language Puzzle is a sleuth's equivalent to one-stop shopping. The origin of language is beginning to look like a solvable problem
The enduring mystery of how humans learned to speak [is] a romantic tale
Extraordinary ... a page-turning dive into the mysteries of human communication
Mithen ... combines lucid prose with a lifetime of experience in this compendious exploration of linguistics, anthropology, neuroscience, geography, genetics, and philosophy ... An expert education into "the most fundamental aspect of the modern mind
Fascinating ... In down-to-earth prose, Mithen weaves a wealth of genetic, linguistic, and paleoanthropological research into a coherent tapestry, with surprising revelations about Stone Age communication as well as present-day language ... A stimulating inquiry into the origins of language
Praise for The Singing Neanderthals:'Illuminating and thought-provoking
A book that has you making up your own theories about how grunts became speech and songs