Origins of human communication, Tomasello, Michael

Автор: Tomasello Michael
Название: Origins of Human Communication
ISBN: 0262515202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262515207
Издательство: MIT Press
Цена: 28210 T
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A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view.

Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction. Tomasello argues that human cooperative communication rests on a psychological infrastructure of shared intentionality (joint attention, common ground), evolved originally for collaboration and culture more generally. The basic motives of the infrastructure are helping and sharing: humans communicate to request help, inform others of things helpfully, and share attitudes as a way of bonding within the cultural group. These cooperative motives each created different functional pressures for conventionalizing grammatical constructions. Requesting help in the immediate you-and-me and here-and-now, for example, required very little grammar, but informing and sharing required increasingly complex grammatical devices. Drawing on empirical research into gestural and vocal communication by great apes and human infants (much of it conducted by his own research team), Tomasello argues further that humans' cooperative communication emerged first in the natural gestures of pointing and pantomiming. Conventional communication, first gestural and then vocal, evolved only after humans already possessed these natural gestures and their shared intentionality infrastructure along with skills of cultural learning for creating and passing along jointly understood communicative conventions. Challenging the Chomskian view that linguistic knowledge is innate, Tomasello proposes instead that the most fundamental aspects of uniquely human communication are biological adaptations for cooperative social interaction in general and that the purely linguistic dimensions of human communication are cultural conventions and constructions created by and passed along within particular cultural groups.

Автор: Corballis Michael C.
Название: The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization
ISBN: 0691160945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691160948
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. This book argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts.

Автор: Powell
Название: Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature
ISBN: 0521782066 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521782067
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Through a full examination of the nature and history of writing, its use in the ancient Near East, and especially in Greece, and its relationship to Homer, this book illuminates the genesis of the Homeric poems and other knotty problems in oral studies.

Автор: Liberman Anatoly
Название: Word Origins ... and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone
ISBN: 0195161475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195161472
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Millions of people want to know the origin of the words they use. Word columns in daily newspapers and numerous books (The Romance of Words, The Loom of Language, Word for Word, and so forth) attempt tp satisfy their curiosity. Word histories are usually digested like pills: the user is interested in getting well, not in the chemistry of the prescribed medication. Those who send letters to the Editor also want a straight answer withoutbothering about how "editors" come by their knowledge. Therefore, they fail to realize that etymologies are seldom definitive and that the science of etymology is intensely interesting. Perhaps if someone explained to them that, compared to the drama of words, Hamlet is a light farce, they might develop a more informed attitudetoward philological research and become students of historical linguistics rather than gullible consumers of journalists` pap.

Автор: Dor Daniel
Название: Social Origins of Language
ISBN: 0199665338 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199665334
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Hurford James R
Название: Origins of Language
ISBN: 0198701888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198701880
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This book offers an accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language and what sets human language apart from the simple communication systems used by non-human animals. It draws on a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, neuroscience, genetics, and animal behaviour.