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Earthlings 101 - Language - A reef of dead metaphores (1x10)

Fecha de emisión: Mar 06, 2013

What is language? What does it reveal about how earthlings think? What are things, properties and actions? What is abstraction? What is a metaphore? How does language develop? Is language in decline? Is the development of language cyclic? What does it mean to say "language is a reef of dead metaphores"?