Dan Everett Books http://daneverettbooks.com Mon, 14 May 2012 11:11:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/dont-sleep-there-are-snakes/ http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/dont-sleep-there-are-snakes/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:26:41 +0000 danbooks http://daneverettbooks.com/?p=981 Continue reading →]]> My work on the Pirahas as described in Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes, DSTAS, has been claimed to be controversial. I don’t really know if I agree with this. It was never intended to be controversial. Whether it is or isn’t, the only way that we can address controversy in science is with more data and careful analysis. That is why a considerable amount of data on the Piraha language is now being prepared that will be machine-readable and publicly available – so that anyone can test their own hypotheses and mine against the data. This work is being done mainly by Steve Piantadosi and Ted Gibson of MIT’s Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, with the help of Laura Stearns and others in the laboratory team,

Reviews of DSTAS and advance praise for LCT are found under “Dan’s Books”, on this site.

]]> http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/dont-sleep-there-are-snakes/feed/ 0 Language: the Cultural Tool http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/950/ http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/950/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:18:16 +0000 danbooks http://daneverettbooks.com/?p=950 Continue reading →]]> My newest book for a general audience is Language: The Cultural Tool, LCT. This book makes the case that language is not an instinct or the result of an innate universal grammar, but that it is a tool that emerges from human cultures and the human brain. This book talks about the origin of human language and discusses some of the amazing variety between languages of the world, drawing extensively on my own research in the Brazilian Amazon with several different indigenous communities and languages. LCT shows that there is nothing known that is specifically linguistic about the human genome, human anatomy, or human development, other than the shape of the human vocal apparatus. It also observes that speech most likely developed after language. LCT talks about the “genius” of the pairings between languages and cultures in our species and concludes with a discussion of how our grammars and cultures work together to provide us with the forms and meanings of happiness.

]]> http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/950/feed/ 0 New Mandarin Version http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/new-mandarin-version/ http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/new-mandarin-version/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:17:35 +0000 danbooks http://daneverettbooks.com/?p=955 There is now a Mandarin version of my book Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes available. Find out how to get the mandarin version of this book.

]]> http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/new-mandarin-version/feed/ 0 Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/frankfurter-allegemeine-zeitung/ http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/frankfurter-allegemeine-zeitung/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:17:14 +0000 danbooks http://daneverettbooks.com/?p=965 Continue reading →]]> Here is a profile of me in one of the leading papers of Germany. If you read German, it gives my answers to a number of common questions about my work.

FAZ Net Profile

Other books of mine that are already out are for specialist linguistic audiences are discussed under technical books on this site.

]]> http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/frankfurter-allegemeine-zeitung/feed/ 0 New Textbook http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/new-textbook/ http://daneverettbooks.com/2011/08/02/new-textbook/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:00:02 +0000 danbooks http://daneverettbooks.com/?p=978 Continue reading →]]> I have linguistic textbook appearing in December 2011, co-authored with my friend and former colleague, Dr. Jeanette Sakel. This book isLinguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide. It tries to teach people how to do plan and execute research on any language in the world.

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