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Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language (Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics) - Softcover

Reboul, Anne

 
9780198847243: Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language (Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0198847246 ISBN 13: 9780198847243
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

This book proposes a new two-step approach to the evolution of language, whereby syntax first evolved as an auto-organizational process for the human conceptual apparatus (as a Language of Thought), and this Language of Thought was then externalized for communication, due to social selection pressures. Anne Reboul first argues that despite the routine use of language in communication, current use is not a failsafe guide to adaptive history. She points out that human cognition is as unique in nature as is language as a communication system, suggesting deep links between human thought and language. If language is seen as a communication system, then the specificities of language, its hierarchical syntax, its creativity, and the ability to use it to talk about absent objects, are a mystery. This book shows that approaching language as a system for thought overcomes these problems, and provides a detailed account of both steps in the evolution of language: its evolution for thought and its externalization for communication.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anne Reboul has a Ph.D in linguistics from EHESS, Paris, and a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Geneva. She is Senior Researcher at CNRS and Co-director of the Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod in Lyon. She is interested in pragmatics, language evolution, and artistic practices, and is currently working in experimental pragmatics as part of the EU project AThEME, where she is investigating the impact of L2 learning on pragmatic abilities. She has published widely in French and English, including articles in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Mind & Language, Frontiers in Psychology, and Pragmatics and Cognition.


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Verlag
OXFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198847246
ISBN 13 
9780198847243
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
276
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