Social Origins of Language (eBook)

Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth (Autoren)

Michael L. Platt (Herausgeber)

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2017
184 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8814-6 (ISBN)

Infos

How human language evolved from the need for social communicationThe origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language-in its modern form-remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new path toward its resolution.In the lead essay, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney draw on their decades-long pioneering research on monkeys and baboons in the wild to show how primates use vocalizations to modulate social dynamics. They argue that key elements of human language emerged from the need to decipher and encode complex social interactions. In other words, social communication is the biological foundation upon which evolution built more complex language.Seyfarth and Cheney's argument serves as a jumping-off point for responses by John McWhorter, Ljiljana Progovac, Jennifer E. Arnold, Benjamin Wilson, Christopher I. Petkov and Peter Godfrey-Smith, each of whom draw on their respective expertise in linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Michael Platt provides an introduction, Seyfarth and Cheney a concluding essay. Ultimately, The Social Origins of Language offers thought-provoking viewpoints on how human language evolved.

Autor

Robert M. Seyfarth is professor of psychology and Dorothy L. Cheney is professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania. They are the coauthors of How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species and Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. Michael L. Platt is the James S. Riepe University Professor of neuroscience, psychology, and marketing at the University of Pennsylvania.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.12.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Series
• Reihe/Serie: Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Series
• Einführung: Michael L. Platt
• Zusatzinfo: 4 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: Aggression • Animal Communication • Baboon • Behavior • biologist • Biology • brain size • Cephalopod • Chimpanzee • Chromatophore • Coevolution • Cognition • cognitive science • Cognitive skill • Communication • Computation • Consilience (book) • Creole Language • cuttlefish • Determiner phrase • Distinctive feature • dominance hierarchy • Ethology • Evolutionary pressure • Explanation • female • Field Experiment • fluency • Future Tense • grammar • Grammaticalization • Hebbian theory • Human Communication • Implicit Learning • Infant • inference • insular cortex • interaction • Intonation (linguistics) • Jakobson's functions of language • John McWhorter • kanzi • language and thought • language change • learning • lexicalization • Linguistics • Macaque • Mammal • mirror neuron • narrative • Natural Language Processing • Neural substrate • Neuroscience • noun • Orbitofrontal cortex • Orienting response • Origin of language • participant • Philosophy of Language • Phoneme • Phonology • Phrase • Pragmatics • Prediction • primate • Processing (Chinese materia medica) • Processing (programming language) • Pronunciation • Prosody (linguistics) • Psychology • reason • Requirement • result • Rhesus Macaque • Semantics • Sensory cortex • sequencing • Small clause • Social behavior • Social Cognition • Social Environment • Social Group • social perception • social phenomenon • social relation • Spoken Language • State of the World (book series) • Statistical regularity • structural functionalism • Syntax • temporal lobe • Terminology • theory • Thought • Uncertainty • utterance • ventromedial prefrontal cortex • Verb • Vervet Monkey
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8814-X / 140088814X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8814-6 / 9781400888146