| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 393 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Jean Nicod lectures ; 2008
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Jean Nicod lectures ; 2008.
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| Note |
"A Bradford book." |
| Summary |
"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."--Inside jacket. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-372) and indexes. |
| Contents |
A focus on infrastructure -- Primate intentional communication -- Human cooperative communication -- Ontogenetic origins -- Phylogenetic origins -- The grammatical dimension -- From ape gestures to human language. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Origin.
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Language and languages -- Origin. |
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Animal communication.
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Animal communication. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tomasello, Michael. Origins of human communication. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008 9780262201773 0262201771 (DLC) 2007049249 (OCoLC)182779723 |
| ISBN |
9780262285070 electronic book |
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026228507X electronic book |
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9781435665682 electronic book |
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1435665686 electronic book |
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9780262201773 electronic book |
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0262201771 electronic book |
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9780262201773 hardcover |
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0262201771 hardcover |
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