
Автор: Spencer D. Kelly
Издательство: The Great Courses
Год: 2020
Формат: MP3
Битрейт аудио: 96.0 kb/s
Время звучания: 11 hours and 50 minutes
Читает: Spencer D. Kelly
Размер: 364 Mb
Язык: English
What is our species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of our past achievements and those we still aspire to is language. Language is the ultimate invention of Homo sapiens - one that has allowed us to change the physical and social world around us in every conceivable way, and an invention that has fundamentally changed us, as well. Research has shown that whether we're sighted or blind, hearing or deaf, one or one hundred years old, communication through language is a fundamental part of what it means to be human.