Daniel Everett, PhD, is a linguist and college professor. He is the author of several books, including “Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle” and “How Language Began: The Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention.”https://daneverettbooks.com
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The book that established Noam Chomsky's reputation as a leading critic of US foreign policy, this statement against the American war in Vietnam critiques the contradictions of the war, indicting the mainstream, liberal …
“And if you're a linguist and you're studying linguistics, that's just genius. It is just brilliant. And then the next book, which he published the same year, was American Power and the New Manderins, which was about Vietnam. And that was also brilliant. And you know, for one person to publish two books like that in…”
Noam Chomsky's 'Aspects of the theory of syntax', published in 1965, was a landmark work in generative grammar that introduced certain technical innovations still drawn upon in contemporary work. The fiftieth anniversary…
“Yeah, well the first two books of Chomsky I read when I started doing graduate work in linguistics. I read the medium one. What is it? Oh, a manufacturer of consent. That's right. Yeah. But he had the first book of his I read, it was in linguistics, aspects of the theory of syntax. And if you're a linguist and you're…”
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Piraha, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. Everett, then a Christian missionary…
“This one, Daniel Everett, don't sleep. There are snakes. Who?”
"Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant fo…
“It's all about the mysteries of human history. And we talked about the seafaring aspect. And how much evidence there is that these people were seafaring as much as a million years ago. Yeah, yeah. And in my book How Language Began, I have... They had to be communicating. Yeah, you can't... There's an archaeologist in…”
“I agree. Completely. You know, that's especially with insults. It's just such a way in you're waiting on the other person's insult and return. Right. Stop it. Or you fucking 12 years old. Yeah. Stop. So the author, Tom Wolf, the last book he wrote was called Kingdom of Speech. And he talked about two controversies,…”
Discusses the ways in which the mass media are manipulated to present the news according to an underlying elite consenus which affects the manner in which similar events in different parts of the world are presented.