The origins of human communication

Michael Tomasello - American psychologist, the world-famous specialist in the field of communication and cooperation in the child and higher primates, director of the Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology Max Planck "Ability to participate with each other in joint actions with shared goals and intentions", i.e., based on and together with the development of joint intentionality. Language, Tomashello, is not born ready, as Athena from Zeus"s head. Stages of language formation are associated with the development of his pragmatics.
The book is addressed to linguists, psychologists, specialists in the field of cognitive sciences about a person, as well as the widest range of readers interested in the origin of reasonable behavior and language