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. A challenge to the views of Chomsky and Pinker 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.
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