The Truth about Language
What It Is and Where It Came From
- Contents
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1 The Rubicon
2 Language as Miracle
3 Language and Natural Selection
Part Two: The Mental Prerequisites
4 Thinking without Language
5 Mind Reading
6 Stories
Part Three: Constructing Language
7 Hands On to Language
8 Finding Voice
9 How Language Is Structured
10 Over the Rubicon
"Corballis writes with an academic's attention to detail in witty, self-deprecating prose. The combination of style and argument make The Truth about Language the best work yet on the gestural theory of language."
what language is and where it comes from. I also liked the puns from a wise, successful man looking back on his career and at the ways the world around him is evolving."
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