from day 20/06/2015

A précis of ‘Speaking Our Minds’

Communication and language have always been key topics for research at the interface of cognition and culture. Rightly so, given the central role that linguistic communication plays in human social and cultural life. In fact, communication and language are doubly important, since they occupy both ...

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‘Speaking Our Minds’ Book Club

We are thrilled to open our second book club, devoted to Thom Scott-Phillips’ book Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different [1], and how language evolved to make it special. The book has received positive reviews in various media, including the Times Literary Supplement (read ...

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