The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

Morton Christiansen and Nick Jader are the authors of The Language Game, How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World. Both language and charades are all about improvisation and active collaboration as you're trying to get your ideas across. In both cases we're improvising to provide cues to help each other understand what it is we're trying to say. So from our perspective then, languages fundamentally improvised communication.