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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Daniel Everett discusses Language: The Cultural Tool
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Event Name: Book Launch: Daniel Everett discusses Language: The Cultural Tool=0D=0AEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441572399=0D=0AEvent Date Begin: 2012-03-30=0D=0AEvent Date End: 2012-03-30=0D=0A=0D=0ARenowned linguist and Bentley  University Dean, Daniel Everett has been conducting field work in linguistics and anthropology since 1977. In Language: The Cultural Tool, Everett builds upon and challenges the work of his predecessors Peter Ladefoged and Noam Chomsky with the startling results of a comprehensive study of indigenous languages in the Brazilian Amazon.=0D=0A==0D=0A=A powerful re-evaluation of language, Everett's work presents language not as innate universal grammar, but as a tool invented by humans, and asks the question - can language be reinvented, or even lost?=0D=0A==0D=0A=(Photo by Roark Johnson)=0D=0A=0D=0AStart time:7:00 PM
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