Campus eBookstore Logo

Skip Navigation LinksEBook Details

Metaphor, Riddles, and the Origin of Language: The Sphinx’s Legacy

Metaphor, Riddles, and the Origin of Language: The Sphinx’s Legacy
Author: Marcel Danesi
Price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 1666918202
ISBN-13: 9781666918205
Get It!:
Delivery: BibliU Reader
Duration: Lifetime

Note:
Copy Selections To Clipboard: Copying content to the clipboard is completely disabled
Printing Pages: Printing pages is completely disabled

Description

Scientific evidence for the origin of speech is abundant, but evidence for the origin of language as separate from speech as a naming system remains speculative. What evidence can be utilized that will furnish relevant insights on the origin or language? This book attempts to provide an answer by suggesting that the first riddles of humanity, along with the first myths, reveal that language may have emerged as a mode of reflection via metaphor—a mode that involves blending speech forms together to produce complex, abstract cognition.