Language :

Everett, Daniel Leonard.

Language : - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2012. - 351 p. :

Includes Index

The gift of Prometheus -- Problems. Language as a social tool ; From fire to communication ; Crossing the communication threshold ; Does Plato have a problem? -- Solutions. Universals and faculties ; How to build a language ; The platforms for language -- Applications. Aristotle's answer : interaction and the construction of cultural sighs ; Language the tool -- Variations. Language, culture, and thinking ; You drink. You drive. You go to jail. Cultural effects on grammar ; Welcome to the Freak Show -- Grammars of happiness -- Appendix. Extract from Plato's "Meno."

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Language and culture.
Communication.
Sociolinguistics.

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