Sverker Johansson

The Dawn of Language

The story of how we came to talk
Übersetzer: Perry, Frank

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity's greatest mysteries - the origins of language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9781529411393
• ISBN-10: 1529411394
• Artikelnr.: 62234024

Autorenporträt

SVERKER JOHANSSON, Doctor of Philosophy in Physics and Master of Philosophy in Linguistics, was born 1961 in Lund in the southern parts of Sweden. He is a senior advisor at Dalarna University, has conducted research at CERN in Switzerland and participated in EVOLANG, the leading international conference for research on the origins and evolution of language, since 2006. Through a bot that he programmed, Lsjbot, Johansson is behind an estimated 8% of all articles on Swedish Wikipedia, covering everything from fungi to municipalities in the Philippines.

Rezensionen

An elegant intellectual thriller . . . A model of popular-science writing in its imperturbable, reasonable weighing of competing ideas . . . [A] fascinating story in its own right Steven Poole Guardian