This book explores why language operates the way it does, why it is acquired the way it is, how it evolved in the first place, and why it is that some phenomena in language are universal while others are not. The author also considers whether apparently separate defining properties of our species are in fact narrowly correlated aspects of one and the same biological reality, which converges in language. Finally, the book explores the possibility that language is both the reason and the effect of the intrinsic responsibility that we feel for our fellow beings, akin to that which in different contexts is called love for our neighbour, or altruism.
This book explores why language operates the way it does, why it is acquired the way it is, how it evolved in the first place, and why it is that some phenomena in language are universal while others are not. The author also considers whether apparently separate defining properties of our species are in fact narrowly correlated aspects of one and the same biological reality, which converges in language. Finally, the book explores the possibility that language is both the reason and the effect of the intrinsic responsibility that we feel for our fellow beings, akin to that which in different contexts is called love for our neighbour, or altruism.
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A Unified and Integrative Theory of Language
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9783034322508 |
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Publisher: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
Publication date: | 09/30/2016 |
Series: | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics , #41 |
Edition description: | New |
Pages: | 252 |
Product dimensions: | 5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d) |