The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

Forget the language instinct-this is the story of how we make up language as wego

Language is¿perhaps humanity's¿most astonishing¿capacity-and one that remains poorly understood. InThe Language Game,cognitivescientistsMortenH.Christiansenand Nick Chatershowus where generations of scientistsseekingthe rules oflanguagegot it wrong. Language isn't about hardwiredgrammarsbut about near-total freedom, something like a game of charades, with the only requirement being a desire tounderstand andbe u...