Jessica's review
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
by Christine Kenneally
Jessica's review
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally
Jessica's review
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This woman clearly has a chip on her shoulder wrt the history of the field and how theoretical linguists don't take animal and psychological studies seriously. But she makes a pretty good case for the chip on her shoulder. But still, there's that chip.
The book was pretty slow for me, but that just means she's doing a good job of writing for a general audience. The subject matter is pretty far away from the stuff that I teach, but I would definitely recommend it to an undergrad who expressed interest in the topic. There's a nice little description of experimental work on Whorfianism.
The book was pretty slow for me, but that just means she's doing a good job of writing for a general audience. The subject matter is pretty far away from the stuff that I teach, but I would definitely recommend it to an undergrad who expressed interest in the topic. There's a nice little description of experimental work on Whorfianism.
