Adam's Tongue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adam's Tongue write by Derek Bickerton. This book was released on 2009-03-17. Adam's Tongue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How language evolved has been called "the hardest problem in science." In Adam's Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn't the only thing that sets us apart from other species—our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units—words—automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe, one that yielded novel innovations ranging from barbed arrowheads to the Apollo spacecraft. Written in Bickerton's lucid and irreverent style, this book is the first that thoroughly integrates the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Sure to be controversial, it will make indispensable reading both for experts in the field and for every reader who has ever wondered how a species as remarkable as ours could have come into existence.
The Adam-man Tongue
The Adam-man Tongue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Adam-man Tongue write by Edmund Shaftesbury. This book was released on 1903. The Adam-man Tongue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Herd Register
Herd Register - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Herd Register write by American Jersey Cattle Club. This book was released on 1879. Herd Register available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Every Tribe and Tongue
Every Tribe and Tongue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Every Tribe and Tongue write by Michael Pasquale. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Every Tribe and Tongue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every Tribe and Tongue offers a way, first, to rediscover biblical stories and principles that relate to questions about immigration and societal multilingualism, and, second, to outline possible ways to guide thoughtful engagement in the discourse of the "public square" based on the biblical witness. We will try to show that, far from being an afterthought in the Bible, the call to love our neighbors and to gather people of every nation together in the worship of God is at the very core of the gospel message. Two powerful passions animate this book from beginning to end. First, this work is saturated in a deeply rooted love of the diversity of human languages that are one of God's gracious gifts to human beings. Second, this book is dedicated to calling the North American church to take seriously its charge not simply to love the "stranger and alien" but to live as "strangers and aliens" within the American nation to which it has been called to witness to Jesus Christ.
The Tongue of Adam
The Tongue of Adam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tongue of Adam write by Abdelfattah Kilito. This book was released on 2016-11-22. The Tongue of Adam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A playful and erudite look at the origins of language In the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed by children, which one can only answer rather stupidly.” So begins Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Tongue of Adam, a delightful series of lectures. With a Borgesian flair for riddles, stories, and subtle scholarly distinctions, Kilito presents an assortment of discussions related to Adam’s tongue, including translation, comparative religion, and lexicography: for example, how, from Babel onward, can we explain the plurality of language? Or can Adam’s poetry be judged aesthetically, the same as any other poem? Drawing from the commentators of the Koran to Walter Benjamin, from the esoteric speculations of Judaism to Herodotus, The Tongue of Adam is a nimble book about the mysterious rise of humankind’s multilingualism.
