This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0631155686.

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Title

Language and Number: The Emergence of a Cognitive System

Publisher

Blackwell

Publication Date

1987

Language

English

ISBN 10

0631155686

ISBN 13

9780631155683

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Good

Weight

650 grams

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This book is intended as a contribution to linguistic theory in the broadest sense. It offers a view of language - illustrated through an examination of the linguistics of number - which brings together considerations of individual psychology and of communication within a speech community. These two strands, the psychological and the social, are put together to give an evolutionary perspective on language. The psychological considerations relate both to the invention and to the ordinary acquisition of language; the social considerations relate to the ways individuals negotiate common standard expressions for their meanings. Languages, the author argues, grow through the interaction of individual minds on the forms invented and socially negotiated by their predecessors. The book also makes a contribution to the philosophy of numbers; arguing that our knowledge of numbers is akin to our possession of language, and that both emerge from a faculty for constructing collections from aggregates.

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