A focus on infrastructure -- Primate intentional communication -- Human cooperative communication -- Ontogenetic origins -- Phylogenetic origins -- The grammatical dimension -- From ape gestures to human language
Summary
"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."--Inside jacket
Analysis
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General
Notes
"A Bradford book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-372) and indexes
