Instruction of Imagination: Language as a Social Communication Technology

by Daniel Dor

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The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement of our species is best characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient humans for a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. All other systems of communication in the biological world target the interlocutors' senses; language allows...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0190256621

ISBN13:9780190256623

Release Date:August 2015

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"

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Language Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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