Origins of Human Communication

by Michael Tomasello

Book Overview

Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction. Tomasello argues that human cooperative communication...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262201771
• ISBN13: 9780262201773
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.2"