Language Matters 1: Linguistics

April McMahon; Will Barras; Lynn Clark; Remco Knooihuizen; Amanda Patten; Jennifer Sullivan

doi:10.5040/9781849662451.ch-019

Language Matters 1: Linguistics

April McMahon, Will Barras, Lynn Clark, Remco Knooihuizen, Amanda Patten, Jennifer Sullivan

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It is hard to think of a more fundamental question than what makes us human. Naturally, fundamental questions have many possible answers; a particularly pithy and engaging one is Francis Evans’ ‘two legs, thing using and talking’ (Evans 1998). Evans argues that humans are essentially bipedal, technological, linguistic animals, and in this essay we will focus on the last of these – the idea that humans are humans because we talk.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Public Value Of The Humanities
Editors	Jonathan Bate
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Bloomsbury
Pages	247-258
ISBN (Print)	978-1849660624
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5040/9781849662451.ch-019
Publication status	Published - Jan 2011

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