Book Launch: Daniel Everett, author of "Language: The Cultural Tool"
03/30/2012 7:00 pm
FRIDAY, MARCH 30 at 7 PM
DANIEL EVERETT discusses
Language: The Cultural Tool
Renowned linguist and
Bentley University Dean, Daniel Everett has been conducting field work
in linguistics and anthropology since 1977. In Language: The Cultural Tool, Everett builds
upon and challenges the work of his predecessors Peter Ladefoged and Noam Chomsky with the startling results of a comprehensive study of indigenous languages in the Brazilian Amazon.
A powerful re-evaluation of language, Everett's work presents language not as innate universal grammar, but as a tool invented by humans, and asks the question - can language be reinvented, or even lost?
A powerful re-evaluation of language, Everett's work presents language not as innate universal grammar, but as a tool invented by humans, and asks the question - can language be reinvented, or even lost?
Parking is available directly behind Back Pages in the Crescent Street Lot (no charge after 6 PM).
Photo by Roark Johnson
Photo by Roark Johnson
Location:
- Street:
- 289 Moody St.
- City:
- Waltham ,
- Province:
- Massachusetts
- Postal Code:
- 02453
- Country:
- United States
