Origins of Human Communication

(Part of the Jean Nicod Lectures Series)

by Michael Tomasello

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Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction. Tomasello argues that human cooperative communication...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0262201771

ISBN13:9780262201773

Release Date:January 2008

Publisher:Bradford Book

Length:393 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 5.9" x 8.2"

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