{"product_id":"the-language-game","title":"The Language Game","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat is language?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhy do we have it?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhy does that matter?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguage is perhaps humanity's most astonishing accomplishment and one that remains poorly understood.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUpending centuries of scholarship (including, most recently, Chomsky and Pinker) \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Language Game \u003c\/i\u003eshows how people learn to talk not by acquiring fixed meanings and rules, but by picking up, reusing, and recombining countless linguistic fragments in novel ways.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing on entertaining and persuasive examples from across the world the book explains:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* How our short-lived memory copes with the on-rushing deluge of sound that is everyday speech.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* Why it is that language is such a challenge for language scientists but learnt effortlessly by toddlers.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* Why the languages of the world are so spectacularly varied---and why no two people speak quite the same language.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* Why humans have language, but chimps don't.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* How language gave us a big brain and changed the course of evolution.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* How language doesn't limit, but does shape, how we think.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e*And ultimately, why all we know about language should give us hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Oversized Paperback \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Published: UK, 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Publisher: Transworld\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Pages: 333\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Language: English\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 13: 9781787633490\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 10: 1787633497\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Morten H. Christiansen , Nick Chater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43537274470666,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9781787633490.jpg?v=1653552059","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-language-game","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}