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Language in Prehistory
Alan Barnard
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2016-01-14
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Language Arts & Disciplines / Sign Language
Science / Life Sciences / Evolution
Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN
1107041120
9781107041127
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=l9fECgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early humans had language, either spoken or signed. Taking an anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard acknowledges this difficulty and argues that we can nevertheless infer a great deal about our linguistic past from what is around us in the present. Hunter-gatherers still inhabit much of the world, and in sufficient number to enable us to study the ways in which they speak, the many languages they use, and what they use them for. Barnard investigates the lives of hunter-gatherers by understanding them in their own terms, to create a book which will be welcomed by all those interested in the evolution of language.