Don't Sleep, There are Snakes - 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 Don't Sleep, There are Snakes write by Daniel Everett. This book was released on 2010-07-09. Don't Sleep, There are Snakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahãs, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. Everett describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Pirahã language opened up a new way of understanding how language works in our minds and in our lives, and that this way was utterly at odds with Noam Chomsky's universally accepted linguistic theories. The perils of passionate academic opposition were then swiftly conjoined to those of the Amazon in a debate whose outcome has yet to be won. Everett's views are most recently discussed in Tom Wolfe's bestselling The Kingdom of Speech. Adventure, personal enlightenment and the makings of a scientific revolution proceed together in this vivid, funny and moving book.
Language
Language - 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 Language write by Daniel L. Everett. This book was released on 2012-03-13. Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain—as most linguists do—but as an essential tool unique to each culture worldwide. For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. But linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language was invented by humans and can be reinvented or lost. He shows how the evolution of different language forms—that is, different grammar—reflects how language is influenced by human societies and experiences, and how it expresses their great variety. For example, the Amazonian Pirahã put words together in ways that violate our long-held under-standing of how language works, and Pirahã grammar expresses complex ideas very differently than English grammar does. Drawing on the Wari’ language of Brazil, Everett explains that speakers of all languages, in constructing their stories, omit things that all members of the culture understand. In addition, Everett discusses how some cultures can get by without words for numbers or counting, without verbs for “to say” or “to give,” illustrating how the very nature of what’s important in a language is culturally determined. Combining anthropology, primatology, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and his own pioneering—and adventurous—research with the Amazonian Pirahã, and using insights from many different languages and cultures, Everett gives us an unprecedented elucidation of this society-defined nature of language. In doing so, he also gives us a new understanding of how we think and who we are.
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention - 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 How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention write by Daniel L. Everett. This book was released on 2017-11-07. How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Buzzfeed Gift Guide Selection “Few books on the biological and cultural origin of humanity can be ranked as classics. I believe [this] will be one of them.” — Edward O. Wilson At the time of its publication, How Language Began received high acclaim for capturing the fascinating history of mankind’s most incredible creation. Deemed a “bombshell” linguist and “instant folk hero” by Tom Wolfe (Harper’s), Daniel L. Everett posits that the near- 7,000 languages that exist today are not only the product of one million years of evolution but also have allowed us to become Earth’s apex predator. Tracing 60,000 generations, Everett debunks long- held theories across a spectrum of disciplines to affi rm the idea that we are not born with an instinct for language. Woven with anecdotes of his nearly forty years of fi eldwork amongst Amazonian hunter- gatherers, this is a “completely enthralling” (Spectator) exploration of our humanity and a landmark study of what makes us human. “[An] ambitious text. . . . Everett’s amiable tone, and especially his captivating anecdotes . . . , will help the neophyte along.”— New York Times Book Review
Linguistic Fieldwork
Linguistic Fieldwork - 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 Linguistic Fieldwork write by Jeanette Sakel. This book was released on 2012-02-02. Linguistic Fieldwork available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A handy beginner's guide to linguistic fieldwork - from the preparation of the work to the presentation of the results.
Time for Bed
Time for Bed - 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 Time for Bed write by Mem Fox. This book was released on 1993. Time for Bed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As darkness falls parents get their children ready for sleep.
