The Origins of Meaning —— Language in the Light of Evolution

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ISBN: 9780199207855 出版年：2007 页码：404 Hurford, James R Oxford University Press

In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at the origins of meaning and of its expression in language and reviews a mass of evidence to uncover the evolutionary path between the non-speaking minds of apes and our own speaking minds. This is a landmark contribution to the understanding of linguistic and thinking processes, and the fullest account yet published of the evolution of language and communication.