Publication

2008 - MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

98,250 words, Guess

Page Count

393 pages

Identifiers

and 7 more
  • ISBN-139780262201773
  • LibraryThing6243449
  • Goodreads5864391
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007049249
  • OCLC Control Number182779723
  • Better World Books9780262201773
  • Open LibraryOL22511485M

Classifications

  • DDC401
  • LCCP116 .T66 2008
  • LCCP116.T66 2008

Description

"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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The Jean Nicod lectures -- 2008

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