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Simon Prentis
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SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human
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Slow fuse
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1995
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6 editions
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Here's a great review of my book which covers all the main points and explains why it's a good read! https://medium.com/@info_60370/if-you...
I wrote the book as a way of making language more visible -- for we swim in a sea of speech (and writing), mostly without even noticing it. That's fine for our day-to-day lives -- like the air, we don't need to know how it keeps us alive. But language is more Read more of this blog post »
I wrote the book as a way of making language more visible -- for we swim in a sea of speech (and writing), mostly without even noticing it. That's fine for our day-to-day lives -- like the air, we don't need to know how it keeps us alive. But language is more Read more of this blog post »
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The idea behind Speech! is simple. Simon Prentis argues that speech is what made us human, and has been the driving force of human evolution for roughly 3 million years, since our ancestors started to develop in quite different ways from our siblings" Read more of this review » |
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“Why are humans so different to all other animals? Like the language we use to frame it, that can seem too obvious to ask – but the answer is rooted in words, and turns out to have been hiding in plain sight.”
― SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human
― SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human