[Cross-posted from New Books in Language] I hope I’m not being species-centric when I say that the emergence of human language is a big deal. John Maynard Smith and…
I hope I’m not being species-centric when I say that the emergence of human language is a big deal. John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry rate it as…
[Cross-posted from New Books in Language] The name of the New Books in Language channel might hint at a disciplinary bias towards “language”. So in some sense Ruth Finnegan‘s Communicating: the…
[Cross-posted from New Books in Language] As linguists, we’re wont to get protective about languages, whether we see them as data points in a typological analysis or a mass…
[Cross-posted from New Books in Linguistics] The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think – sometimes referred to as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis – has had…
In linguistics, we all happily and glibly affirm that there is no “better” or “worse” among languages (or dialects, or varieties), although we freely admit that people have…
[Cross-posted from New Book in Language] In linguistics, we all happily and glibly affirm that there is no “better” or “worse” among languages (or dialects, or varieties), although we freely…
[Cross-posted from New Books in Language] It’s not surprising that human language reflects and respects logical relations – logic, in some sense, ‘works’. For linguists, this represents a potent… Visit…
Isn’t it odd how the golden age of correct language always seems to be around the time that its speaker was in high school, and that language has…