Aping Language

by Joel Wallman

Book Overview

Language is regarded, at least in most intellectual traditions, as the quintessential human attribute, at once evidence and source of most that is considered transcendent in us, distinguishing ours from the merely mechanical nature of the beast. Even if language did not have the sacrosanct status it does in our conception of human nature, however, the question of its presence in other species would still promote argument, for we lack any universally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521406668
• ISBN13: 9780521406666
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"