The Evolution of Language: Towards Gestural Hypotheses

Przemysław Żywiczyński, Sławomir Wacewicz (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

2019
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-79022-9 (ISBN)

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lt;p>Language evolution is a science which studies the origins and diversification of language. This book is an introduction to the topic and is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in the study of language evolution.

lt;p>This book discusses the scope and development of the science of language evolution - a newly emergent field that investigates the origin of language. The book is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in science and presents the problems of language origins together with introductory information on such topics as the theory of evolution, elements of linguistic theory, the neural infrastructure of language or the signalling theory.

Przemysław Żywiczyński is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland. Sławomir Wacewicz is an Assistant Professor at the same department. The authors are the founders of NCU’s Center for Language Evolution Studies (CLES).

lt;p>Language origins - Language evolution - Evolutionism - History of linguistics - History of ideas - History of science - Glottogony - Glossogeny - Darwinism - Neo-Darwinian synthesis - Biological foundations of language

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2019
Reihe/Serie	Dis/Continuities ; 20
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	441 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
Schlagworte	Biological foundations of language • Buchholtz • Darwinism • Evolution • Evolution of the brain • Ewolucja • gestural • gesturalnych • Gesture Studies • hipotez • hypotheses • jezyka • języka • Kopernika • language • Mikolaja • Mikołaja • Miroslawa • Mirosława • Naukowe • Przemyslaw • Przemysław • signalling theory • Slawomir • Sławomir • strone • stronę • Uniwersytetu • Wacewicz • Wydawnictwo • _ywiczynski • ywiczynski • Żywiczyński
ISBN-10	3-631-79022-8 / 3631790228
ISBN-13	978-3-631-79022-9 / 9783631790229
Zustand	Neuware