Consequences of Language: From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity

by Jack Sidnell, N J Enfield, N.J. Enfield

What is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human?

If you are reading this, you have done something that only our species has evolved to do. You have acquired a natural language. This book asks, How has this changed us?

Where scholars have long wondered what it is about humans that makes language possible, N. J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell ask instead, What is it about humans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262544865
• ISBN13: 9780262544863
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"