Metaphor, Riddles, and the Origin of Language
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- ISBN 9781666918199
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 158 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
Marcel Danesi is professor emeritus of linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto.
