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The Gestural Origin of Language
Author | : David F. Armstrong,Sherman E. Wilcox |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2007-04-19 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0198036914 |
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In The Gestural Origin of Language, Sherman Wilcox and David Armstrong use evidence from and about sign languages to explore the origins of language as we know it today. According to their model, it is sign, not spoken languages, that is the original mode of human communication. The authors demonstrate that modern language is derived from practical actions and gestures that were increasingly recognized as having the potential to represent, and hence to communicate. In other words, the fundamental ability that allows us to use language is our ability to use pictures or icons, rather than linguistic symbols. Evidence from the human fossil record supports the authors' claim by showing that we were anatomically able to produce gestures and signs before we were able to speak fluently. Although speech evolved later as a secondary linguistic communication device that eventually replaced sign language as the primary mode of communication, speech has never entirely replaced signs and gestures. As the first comprehensive attempt to trace the origin of grammar to gesture, this volume will be an invaluable resource for students and professionals in psychology, linguistics, and philosophy.
Gesture and the Nature of Language
Author | : David F. Armstrong,William C. Stokoe,Sherman E. Wilcox |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1995-03-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521467721 |
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This book proposes a radical alternative to dominant views of the evolution of language, in particular the origins of syntax. The authors draw on evidence from areas such as primatology, anthropology, and linguistics to present a groundbreaking account of the notion that language emerged through visible bodily action. Written in a clear and accessible style, Gesture and the Nature of Language will be indispensable reading for all those interested in the origins of language.
The Evolution of Language Towards Gestural Hypotheses
Author | : Przemysław Żywiczyński,Sławomir Wacewicz |
Publsiher | : Dis/Continuities |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
ISBN | : 3631790228 |
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Language evolution is a science which studies the origins and diversification of language. This book is an introduction to the topic and is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in the study of language evolution.
From Hand to Mouth
Author | : Michael C. Corballis |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0691088039 |
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Writing with wit and eloquence, Corballis makes nimble reference to literature, mythology, natural history, sports, and contemporary politics as he explains in fascinating detail what is now known about the evolution of language. Line illustrations.
New Perspectives on the Origins of Language
Author | : Claire Lefebvre,Bernard Comrie,Henri Cohen |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2013-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027271136 |
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The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of interest in the emergence of language from an evolutionary perspective has been helped by the convergence of approaches, methods, and ideas from several disciplines. The selection of contributions in this volume highlight scenarios of language origin and the prerequisites for a faculty of language based on biological, historical, social, cultural, and paleontological forays into the conditions that brought forth and favored language emergence, augmented by insights from sister disciplines. The chapters all reflect new speculation, discoveries and more refined research methods leading to a more focused understanding of the range of possibilities and how we might choose among them. There is much that we do not yet know, but the outlines of the path ahead are ever clearer.
Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates
Author | : Katja Liebal,Cornelia Müller,Simone Pika |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027222401 |
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The aim of this volume is to bring together the research in gestural communication in both nonhuman and human primates and to explore the potential of a comparative approach and its contribution to the question of an evolutionary scenario in which gestures play a signuificant role.
How Language Began
Author | : David McNeill |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2012-08-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781139560917 |
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Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess. Nearly all theorizing about the origins of language either ignores gesture, views it as an add-on or supposes that language began in gesture and was later replaced by speech. David McNeill challenges the popular 'gesture-first' theory that language first emerged in a gesture-only form and proposes a groundbreaking theory of the evolution of language which explains how speech and gesture became unified.
Language in Hand
Author | : William C. Stokoe |
Publsiher | : Gallaudet University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 156368103X |
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Integrating current findings in linguistics, semiotics, and anthropology, Stokoe fashions a closely reasoned argument that suggests how our human ancestors' powers of observation and natural hand movements could have evolved into signed morphemes.".