{"product_id":"9781804991008","title":"The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world","description":"Author: Christiansen, Morten H. \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781804991008 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK \u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2023 \u003cbr\u003ePages: 368 \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 21mm \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescripition: \u003cbr\u003eWhat is language? Why do we have it? Where does it come from? Why does that matter? \u003ci\u003eThe Language Game \u003c\/i\u003edraws on a fascinating range of examples to show the way language works, has shaped our evolution and is critical to our future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins\u003cbr\u003e'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford\u003cbr\u003e'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel Everett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is language?\u003cbr\u003eWhy do we have it?\u003cbr\u003eWhy does that matter?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLanguage is perhaps humanity's most astonishing accomplishment and one that remains poorly understood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUpending centuries of scholarship (including, most recently, Chomsky and Pinker) \u003ci\u003eThe Language Game \u003c\/i\u003eshows how people learn to talk not by acquiring fixed meanings and rules, but by picking up, reusing, and recombining countless linguistic fragments in novel ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on entertaining and persuasive examples from across the world the book explains-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  How our short-lived memory copes with the on-rushing deluge of sound that is everyday speech.\u003cbr\u003e  Why it is that language is such a challenge for language scientists but learnt effortlessly by toddlers.\u003cbr\u003e  Why the languages of the world are so spectacularly varied---and why no two people speak quite the same language.\u003cbr\u003e  Why humans have language, but chimps don't.\u003cbr\u003e  How language gave us a big brain and changed the course of evolution.\u003cbr\u003e  How language doesn't limit, but does shape, how we think.\u003cbr\u003e And ultimately, why all we know about language should give us hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristiansen and Chater's \u003ci\u003eThe Language Game\u003c\/i\u003e draws on a fascinating range of examples to show the way language works, has shaped our evolution and is critical to our future.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45540475043998,"sku":"UBD-9781804991008","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781804991008.jpg?v=1749177968","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781804991008","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}