Download or read book Language: Communication and Human Behavior written by William Diver and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these newly edited, annotated, and contextualized foundational linguistic works, many previously unpublished, the late William Diver of Columbia University radically analyzes language as a structure shaped by communicative function and by characteristics of its human users.