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Wari by Daniel L. Everett
RRP: $120.88Booksplease Price: $108.83This is the first major study of any Chapakuran language and makes an important contribution to linguistic theory. This study is especially timely as the Chapakuran languages of Western Brazil and... -
Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel L Everett 9780307473806
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $31.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473806Author Daniel L EverettFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint VintagePublisher... -
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L Everett
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386120Author Daniel L. EverettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher... -
Dark Matter of the Mind: The Culturally Articulated Unconscious Daniel L. Everett 9780226526782
Booksplease Price: $56.26Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it... -
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel L. Everett 9780871407955
Booksplease Price: $45.28Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell"... -
Linguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide by Jeanette Sakel 9780521837279
RRP: $161.85Booksplease Price: $149.99A handy beginner's guide, this textbook introduces the various stages of linguistic fieldwork, from the preparation of the work to the presentation of the results. Drawing on over forty years of... -
Linguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide by Jeanette Sakel
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $40.85A handy beginner's guide, this textbook introduces the various stages of linguistic fieldwork, from the preparation of the work to the presentation of the results. Drawing on over forty years of... -
The Navajo Sound System by J. M. McDonough 9781402013515
Booksplease Price: $176.59The Navajo language is spoken by the Navajo people who live in the Navajo Nation, located in Arizona and New Mexico in the southwestern United States. The Navajo language belongs to the Southern, or... -
The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct by Vyvyan Evans
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $47.97Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human 'instinct'... -
Language Conflict and Language Rights: Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on Human Conflict by William D. Davies 9781107022096
RRP: $222.30Booksplease Price: $204.93As the colonial hegemony of empire fades around the world, the role of language in ethnic conflict has become increasingly topical, as have issues concerning the right of speakers to choose and use... -
Consciousness, Language, and Self: Psychoanalytic, Linguistic, and Anthropological Explorations of the Dual Nature of Mind Michael Robbins (Boston Psychoanalytic Society, Massachusetts, USA) 9781138487642
RRP: $74.08Booksplease Price: $67.45Consciousness, Language, and Self proposes that the human self is innately bilingual. Conscious mind includes two qualitatively distinct mental processes, each of which uses the same formal elements... -
The Birth of Language Dieter Hillert 9781041130864
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $45.90The Birth of Language traces the gradual evolution of human language over two million years, uncovering the intricate interplay between biological adaptations and cultural innovations. It... -
Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics by Chris Knight
Booksplease Price: $34.46A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar... -
Tool Intelligence as an Explanation of Cross-Linguistic Variation and Family Resemblance: An Evolutionary and Typological Investigation by Anneliese Kuhle 9781498561211
Booksplease Price: $169.12Tool Intelligence taps primatological and linguistic field research to draw an analogy between prelinguistic material cultures of nonhuman primates and natural human languages. Linguistics and... -
The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $34.34The 10th anniversary editionA Guardian Best Book about DeforestationA New Scientist Best Book of the YearA Taipei Times Best Book of the Year"A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live...