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The Language Puzzle
Steven Mithen
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
'A tour de force' Alice Roberts
'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin Dunbar
The relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human.
The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words.
Drawing on the latest discoveries in archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and genetics, Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved; he explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture, and how we talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and swiftly into today's Digital Age.
While this radical new work is not shy to reject outdated ideas about language, it builds bridges between disciplines to forge a new synthesis for the evolution of language that will find widespread acceptance as a new standard account for how humanity began.
Rezensionen
Mithen ... combines lucid prose with a lifetime of experience in this compendious exploration of linguistics, anthropology, neuroscience, geography, genetics, and philosophy ... An expert education into "
How humans acquired their most important and mysterious mental skill remains a fascinating mystery. Steven Mithen describes the leading clues from diverse sources so clearly that <i>The Language Puzzle</i> is a sleuth'
An authoritative, dense yet accessible synthesis, <i>The Language Puzzle</i> is a superbly up-to-date guide to the complex and variegated evolution of language. Encompassing a huge and multidisciplinary scope of knowledge and covering some 5 million years, this fascinating book shows that asking how and why we came to speak also means exploring what it is to be human
A fascinating history of ideas and a masterful synthesis of the latest insights from linguistics, archaeology, genetics, neuroscience and AI - providing us with a compelling theory of the evolution of language. <i>The Language Puzzle</i> is a tour de force
Extraordinary ... a page-turning dive into the mysteries of human communication
<p><b>Praise for <i>The Singing Neanderthals</i>:</b><br><br>'
Takes the reader on a whirlwind journey through many disparate disciplines, generously dispersing interesting tidbits and ideas along the way
Relating the evolution of the human lineage while attempting to integrate linguistics, genetics, archeology, and semiotics in proposing a holistic explanation for language evolution is no small task. However, in this remarkably accessible narrative, Mithen weaves a thoughtful and engaging account across time, bodies, places, and materials. Whether or not one agrees, in total or in part, with the assumptions and assertions in the book, it offers a bounty of valuable insights and has much to teach us all
The enduring mystery of how humans learned to speak [is] a romantic tale
Fascinating ... In down-to-earth prose, Mithen weaves a wealth of genetic, linguistic, and paleoanthropological research into a coherent tapestry, with surprising revelations about Stone Age communication as well as present-day language ... A stimulating inquiry into the origins of language
A book that has you making up your own theories about how grunts became speech and songs
The most perspicacious portrait of the role of communication among our remote predecessors that I have ever encountered ... A landmark book
A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language - written with Mithen'
Wonderfully evocative ... A highly original view of our musical origins
An epic achievement that, more than any other book out there, rises to the challenge of elucidating the immense complexity that underpinned the emergence and evolution of human language ... keeps the reader deliciously hanging on
Kundenbewertungen
Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari, The World Before Us Tom Higham, genes, The Evolution of Language Tecumseh Fitch, The Singing Neanderthals Steve Mithen, homo erectus, vowels, chimpanzees, syntax, The Language Instinct Steven Pinker, How Language Began Dan Everett, The Prehistory of Music Iain Morley, The Unfolding of Language and Through the Language Glass Guy Deutscher, becoming human, vocal tracts, brains, Kindred Rebecca Wragg Sykes, words, neanderthals, stone tools, gestures, symbols, The Dawn of Language Sverker Johansson, The First Word Christine Kenneally