The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

by Nick Chater, Morten Christiansen, Morten H. Christiansen

Book Overview

Forget the language instinct--this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language isperhaps humanity'smost astonishingcapacity--and one that remains poorly understood. In The Language Game , cognitive scientists Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater show us where generations of scientists seeking the rules of language got it wrong. Language isn't about hardwired grammars but about near-total freedom, something like a game of charades,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541674987
• ISBN13: 9781541674981
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"