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Becoming human : the development of language, self, and self-consciousness / John V. Canfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Canfield, John V.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Language acquisition.
- Self-consciousness (Awareness).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 186 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- This book is a philosophical examination of the main stages in our journey from hominid to human, dealing with the nature and origins of language, the self and self-consciousness.
- Contents:
- Setting out
- What language is not
- Language-games
- Zoe learns to talk
- How the human got its words
- Self-portrait, ink on paper
- The further adventures of nobody
- Consciousness
- Self-consciousness
- Back to Eden.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0230552935
- 9780230552937
- OCLC:
- 137244713
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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