Origins of human communication
By: Michael Tomasello.
Series: The Jean Nicod lectures -- 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780262201773
Subjects: Language and languages -- Origin; Animal communication
Description: "In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction."--Inside jacket.
Notes: "A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-372) and indexes.