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Description of  Why Language?: What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication (Mouton Series in Pragmatics, 25)

There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communication and communication is not language, why languages vary and how they evolved. Based on the most recent works in linguistics and pragmatics, Why Language? addresses many questions that everyone has about language. Read more