Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special

Thom Scott-Phillips

ISBN 10: 1137334576 / ISBN 13: 9781137334572

Published by Red Globe Press, 2014

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Fascinating and original, Scott-Phillips presents a novel thesis explaining the origins and evolution of language to answer the questions of why language is unique to humans and how language developed. Drawing on evolutionary psychology, biology, linguistics and anthropology, it is essential reading for anyone interested in language's evolution. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFF; JHM; JM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 460. . 2014. 2015 ed. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137334576
• ISBN 13: 9781137334572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective tell us about the nature of language and communication?

Drawing on a range of disciplines including cognitive science, linguistics, anthropology and evolutionary biology, Speaking Our Minds explains how language evolved and why we are the only species to communicate in this way.

Written by a rising star in the field, this groundbreaking book is required reading for anyone interested in understanding the origins and evolution of human communication and language.

About the Author

Thom Scott-Phillips is a research fellow in Evolutionary and Cognitive Anthropology, at Durham University, UK. He currently holds an Addison Wheeler Fellowship and a prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders grant, and was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has spent the past 10 years studying and researching the evolutionary origins of human communication and language. His work has received multiple prizes and accolades, including the New Investigator Award from the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in 2011, and the British Psychological Society's award for Outstanding Doctoral Research in 2010.
Thom Scott-Phillips is a research fellow in Evolutionary and Cognitive Anthropology, at Durham University, UK. He currently holds an Addison Wheeler Fellowship and a prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders grant, and was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has spent the past 10 years studying and researching the evolutionary origins of human communication and language. His work has received multiple prizes and accolades, including the New Investigator Award from the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in 2011, and the British Psychological Society's award for Outstanding Doctoral Research in 2010.