The Meaning of Primate Signals (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521259444 ISBN 13: 9780521259446

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Inhaltsangabe

Language is just one particularly highly developed form of primate communication. Recent years have seen increased attention to other forms: studies of animals in the wild, efforts to teach sign language to apes. This volume reflects perspectives from a variety of disciplines on the nature and function of primate signalling systems.

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Language is just one particularly highly developed form of primate communication. Recent years have seen increased attention to other forms: studies of animals in the wild, efforts to teach sign language to apes. This volume reflects perspectives from a variety of disciplines on the nature and function of primate signalling systems. Monkeys and apes, like people, live in a world in which they are constantly receiving and transmitting information. How can we interpret the ways in which they process it without imposing our own language-based categorizations? The problem is partly scientific, partly conceptual: that is, partly concerned with what language is. The authors' findings and insights will be of interest to a broad group of primatologists, linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers.

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ix 256p hardback, green dustjacket, almost as new, an excellent copy

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0521259444
• ISBN 13: 9780521259446
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Herausgeber: Harré Rom, Reynolds Vernon