The Cultural Tool
The Cultural Tool
A controversial new theory about how we talk, from the author of }Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes{, which sold more than 30,000 copies. Everett argues that language is not an innate component of the brain, but a cultural tool which varies across different societies.
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Fusing adventure, anthropology, linguistics and psychology, and drawing on Everett's pioneering research with the Amazonian Pirahas, this book argues that language is embedded within - and is inseparable from - its specific culture. It presents the controversial idea that language is not an innate component of the brain.
