In this origin story of humanity, scientific expert Madeleine Beekman makes the case that human language evolved to solve an existential problem for our ancestors: caring for extremely premature infants....Lasīt vairāk
Roughly eight million years ago, a branch of hominids from the forests of East Africa started to adapt to the drier environment created by the East African Rift System. A host of physical developments culminated in the brains of early humans increasi...Lasīt vairāk
This book studies the origins of language. It presents language as the product of a unique non-linguistic cognitive feature (i.e., metacognition) that emerged late in human evolution. This book studies the origins of language. It presents...Lasīt vairāk
Scientific evidence for the origin of speech is abundant, but evidence for the origin of language as separate from speech as a naming system remains speculative. What evidence can be utilized that will furnish relevant insights on the origin or la...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Mar-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009476065)
The evolution of language has developed into a large research field. Two questions are particularly relevant for this strand of research: firstly, how did the human capacity for language emerge? And secondly, which processes of cultural evolution are...Lasīt vairāk
This Element gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art of language evolution research and discusses how cognitive linguistics and research on the evolution of language can cross-fertilise each other. This title is also available as Open Acces...Lasīt vairāk
An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history and practice of inve...Lasīt vairāk
The present volume is a reprint of the 2009 second edition of the book, and includes the text of the first edition (1994) with minor modifications, as well as the scientific evidence for monogenesis, and a Postscript recounting developments in the fi...Lasīt vairāk
Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive Richard Dawkins Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read. Tim Harford Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read! - Daniel Everett What is language? Why do we have it? Why do...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Nov-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032379937)
This book studies the origins of language. It presents language as the product of a unique non-linguistic cognitive feature (i.e., metacognition) that emerged late in human evolution. Within this framework, the author lays special emphasis on the ti...Lasīt vairāk
This book contributes to the debate surrounding the origin of language by demonstrating that riddles and myths can be examined as evidence of the emergence of conceptual metaphors, a prerequisite for the development of a complete language--...Lasīt vairāk
A model of popular-science writing STEVEN POOLEWho was the first speaker and what was their first message?An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanitys greatest mysteries - the...Lasīt vairāk
In this book the authors draw together work from cognitive science, linguistics, Paleolithic anthropology, art history, and semiotics, the authors offer commentary on their own process of discovery and bases for communicating the key ideas acro...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Apr-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262046398)
An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history and practic...Lasīt vairāk
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Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive Richard Dawkins Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read. Tim Harford Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read! - Daniel Everett -----------------------------------------...Lasīt vairāk
Think about the game charades. Its rules are simple: no talking, of course, and little else. Each time we play with a new group, we have to figure each other out, with our different styles, backgrounds, and senses of the world, as we struggle to con...Lasīt vairāk
