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Titel:
The social origins of language
Enthält:
1. Introduction : A social perspective on how language began
/ Daniel Dor, Chris Knight, and Jerome Lewis2. Why we need to move from gene-culture co-evolution to culturally driven co-evolution / Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka
3. Niche construction and semiosis : biocultural and social dynamics
/ Chris Sinha
4. Signal evolution and the social brain
/ Camilla Power
5. How can a social theory of language evolution be grounded in evidence?
/ Sverker Johansson
6. The 'poly-modalic' nature of utterances and its relevance for inquiring into language origins
/ Adam Kendon
7. BaYaka Pygmy multi-modal and mimetic communication traditions
/ Jerome Lewis
8. Language presupposes an enchronic infrastructure for social interaction
/ N.J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell
9. The instruction of imagination : language and its evolution as a communication technology
/ Daniel Dor
10. Chimpanzee grooming gestures and sounds : what might they tell us about how language evolved?
/ Simone Pika
11. Vocal communication and social awareness in chimpanzees and bonobos
/ Zanna Clay and Klaus Zuberbühler
12. Why humans and not apes : the social preconditions for the emergence of language
/ Charles Whitehead
13. Language and collective fiction : from children's pretence to social institutions
/ Emily Wyman
14. The time frame of the emergence of modern language and its implications
/ Dan Dediu and Stephen C. Levinson
15. The evolution of ritual as a process of sexual selection
/ Camilla Power
16. The red thread : pigment use and the evolution of collective ritual
/ Ian Watts
17. Language and symbolic culture : an outcome of hunter-gatherer reverse dominance
/ Chris Knight
18. The co-evolution of human intersubjectivity, morality, and language
/ Jordan Zlatev
19. Forever united : the co-evolution of language and normativity
/ Ehud Lamm
20. Why talk?
/ Jean-Louis Dessalles
21. Vocal deception, laughter, and the linguistic significance of reverse dominance
/ Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis
22. Memory, imagination, and the evolution of modern language
/ Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka
23. Transmission biases in the cultural evolution of language : towards an explanatory framework
/ N.J. Enfield
24. Breaking down false barriers to understanding
/ Luc Steels.
Anmerkungen:
Literaturverz. S. [350] - 419
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Beschreibung:
This book offers an exciting new perspective on the origins of language. Language is conceptualized as a collective invention, on the model of writing or the wheel, and the book places social and cultural dynamics at the centre of its evolution: language emerged and further developed in human communities already suffused with meaning and communication, mimesis, ritual, song and dance, alloparenting, new divisions of labour and revolutionary changes in social relations. The book thus challenges assumptions about the causal relations between genes, capacities, social communication and innovation: the biological capacities are taken to evolve incrementally on the basis of cognitive plasticity, in a process that recruits previous adaptations and fine-tunes them to serve novel communicative ends. Topics include the ability brought about by language to tell lies, that must have confronted our ancestors with new problems of public trust; the dynamics of social-cognitive co-evolution; the role of gesture and mimesis in linguistic communication; studies of how monkeys and apes express their feelings or thoughts; play, laughter, dance, song, ritual and other social displays among extant hunter-gatherers; the social nature of language acquisition and innovation; normativity and the emergence of linguistic norms; the interaction of language and emotions; and novel perspectives on the time-frame for language evolution. The contributors are leading international scholars from linguistics, anthropology, palaeontology, primatology, psychology, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, archaeology, and cognitive science.