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The Social Origins of Language
Author | : Robert M. Seyfarth,Dorothy L. Cheney |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2017-12-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781400888146 |
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How human language evolved from the need for social communication The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language—in its modern form—remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new path toward its resolution. In the lead essay, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney draw on their decades-long pioneering research on monkeys and baboons in the wild to show how primates use vocalizations to modulate social dynamics. They argue that key elements of human language emerged from the need to decipher and encode complex social interactions. In other words, social communication is the biological foundation upon which evolution built more complex language. Seyfarth and Cheney’s argument serves as a jumping-off point for responses by John McWhorter, Ljiljana Progovac, Jennifer E. Arnold, Benjamin Wilson, Christopher I. Petkov and Peter Godfrey-Smith, each of whom draw on their respective expertise in linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Michael Platt provides an introduction, Seyfarth and Cheney a concluding essay. Ultimately, The Social Origins of Language offers thought-provoking viewpoints on how human language evolved.
The Social Origins of Language
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Author | : Daniel Dor,Danny Dor,Chris Knight,Jerome Lewis |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Anthropological linguistics |
ISBN | : 0191779725 |
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This book presents a new perspective on the origins of language, and highlights the key role of social and cultural dynamics in driving language evolution. It considers, among other questions, the role of gesture in communication, mimesis, play, dance, and song in extant hunter-gatherer communities, and the time-frame for language evolution.
The Social Origins of Language
Author | : Daniel Dor,Danny Dor,Chris Knight,Jerome Lewis |
Publsiher | : Oxford Studies in the Evolutio |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199665327 |
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This book presents a new perspective on the origins of language, and highlights the key role of social and cultural dynamics in driving language evolution. It considers, among other questions, the role of gesture in communication, mimesis, play, dance, and song in extant hunter-gatherer communities, and the time-frame for language evolution.
Music and the Origins of Language
Author | : Downing A. Thomas |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 1995-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521473071 |
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This study analyses reflections on music and considers ways in which it facilitates links between language and meaning.
Origins of Language
Author | : Sverker Johansson |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2005-02-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027294609 |
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Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported conclusions, over speculative scenarios. Much that has been written on the origins of language is characterized by hypothesizing largely unconstrained by evidence. But empirical data do exist, and the purpose of this book is to integrate and review the available evidence from all relevant disciplines, not only linguistics but also, e.g., neurology, primatology, paleoanthropology, and evolutionary biology. The evidence is then used to constrain the multitude of scenarios for language origins, demonstrating that many popular hypotheses are untenable. Among the issues covered: (1) Human evolutionary history, (2) Anatomical prerequisites for language, (3) Animal communication and ape "language", (4) Mind and language, (5) The role of gesture, (6) Innateness, (7) Selective advantage of language, (8) Proto-language.
Why We Talk
Author | : Jean-Louis Dessalles |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2007-01-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199276233 |
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Constant exchange of information is integral to our societies. The author explores how this came into being. Presenting language evolution as a natural history of conversation, he sheds light on the emergence of communication in the hominine congregations, as well as on the human nature.
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
Author | : Chris Knight,Michael Studdert-Kennedy,James Hurford |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2000-11-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521786967 |
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Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it emerge? The contributors to this volume - linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and others - adopt a modern Darwinian perspective which offers a bold synthesis of the human and natural sciences. As a feature of human social intelligence, language evolution is driven by biologically anomalous levels of social cooperation. Phonetic competence correspondingly reflects social pressures for vocal imitation, learning, and other forms of social transmission. Distinctively human social and cultural strategies gave rise to the complex syntactical structure of speech. This book, presenting language as a remarkable social adaptation, testifies to the growing influence of evolutionary thinking in contemporary linguistics. It will be welcomed by all those interested in human evolution, evolutionary psychology, linguistic anthropology, and general linguistics.
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.