Do We Have Language or Linguistics?

In human evolution, our ancestors started to feel alienated from one another because they had these larger societies. They just devote all their energy to physical grooming. The societyis too large. And especially because now their hands are occupied with other things, like cooking, using tools and also popping the sits of your partner. So they start switching from an emphasis on the hands or the limbs to anemphasis on the throat. That shift in emphasis is the beginning of language. It really means that language has a social origin.

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