What is language?Why do we have it?Why does that matter?Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing accomplishment and one that remains poorly understood. Upending centuries of scholarship (including, most recently, Chomsky and Pinker) The Language Game shows how people learn to talk not by acquiring fixed meanings and rules, but by picking up, reusing, and recombining countless linguistic fragments in novel ways. Drawing on entertaining and persuasive examples from across the world the book explains:* How our short-lived memory copes with the on-rushing deluge of sound that is everyday speech.

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Languages: English
Pages: 368
ISBN 13: 9781804991008
ISBN 10: 1804991007