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The Origins of Meaning
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 especi...more
Hardcover, 388 pages
Published
October 11th 2007
by Oxford University Press, USA
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Wow, super sciency. Interesting, but my head was spinning. Good for scientists, philosophers, and very smart people.
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