Adrian Buck’s Reviews > The Crucible of Language > Status Update

"And as meaning arises in a cultural context, a full account of meaning-making ultimately needs to include all three points of this golden triangle..language, mind and culture..." - a bit late in the day

"nunchi"- do Koreans make the best waiters?

"nunchi"- do Koreans make the best waiters?

"Meaning, our capacity to signal an idea - a wish, feeling, belief, instruction - and be understood to be signalling that idea, did not originate with language." - Certainly, this book makes me look again at the intentionality of other animals.

"...and in the absence of telepathy, the function of language is to enable us to communicate AND, thereby, interact with and influence one another one another" - in the absence of language, wouldn't telepathy be a form of mind control rather than communication?

Red/redness is a poor example for the point he wants to make about lexical classes - 'Red' can also function as a noun.

"And this is a direct result of additional nerve control of the intercostal muscles and diaphragm, enabling voluntary control [of breathing] and hence speech."

"Species with sophisticated communication systems ... have broadcast capacities that match reception capabilities."

For instance, recent data suggests that in the United States adult males are, on average, just 8 per cent heavier than adult females and just 4 per cent taller" - decline of manual labour?

"This is likely to be an adaptation to eating cooked meat for well over a million years" - cookery preceded language?