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The language game : how improvisation created language and changed the world (engelsk)


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Language is perhaps humanity's most astonishing accomplishment and one that remains poorly understood. Upending centuries of scholarship (including, most recently, Chomsky and Pinker) this book 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.

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The accidental invention that changed the world

Language as charades

The fleeting nature of language

The unbearable lightness of meaning

Linguistic order at the edge of chaos

Language evolution without biological evolution

Following in each other's footsteps

Endless forms most beautiful

brains, culture, and language(The virtuous circle)

Language will save us from the singularity(The virtuous circle)


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