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The Grammar of Genes

How the Genetic Code Resembles the Linguistic Code

Angel Lopez-Garcia (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2005
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03910-654-7 (ISBN)

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Mankind is the only speaking species on earth. Hence language is supposed to have a genetic basis, no matter whether it relies on general intelligence, or on a linguistic module. This study proposes that universal formal properties of the linguistic code emerged from the genetic code through duplication. The proportion of segmental duplication is clearly higher in the human genome than in any other species, and duplication took place 6 million years ago when humans separated from the other hominid branches. The evolution of language is therefore supposed to be a gradual process with a break. This book describes a lot of striking formal resemblances the genetic code and the linguistic code hold in common. The book aims to reconcile generative grammar with cognitive semiotics showing that both of them constitute instances of embodiment.

The Author: Ángel López-García is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Valencia (Spain), and he has been a visiting Professor at the universities of Virginia, Mainz, Minnesota, Tucumán and Aarhus. He helped to develop the Liminar Grammar model of Cognitive Linguistics as soon as 1980, and elaborated a series of applications to natural languages. He is the author of two dozens of books and some two hundred papers on Linguistics, Semiotics, and Communication. He received the Prix Honoré Chavée de l’Académie Française.

Contents: Genetic code - Linguistic code - Origin of language - Embodiment - Generative grammar - Cognitive semiotics - Genome duplication - Phrase structure - Text structure - Universals of language - Language evolution.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.8.2005
Reihe/Serie	European Semiotics / Sémiotiques Européennes ; 6
Verlagsort	Lausanne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	310 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
Schlagworte	Aage • Angel • Brandt • Code • Cognitive semiotic • Garcia • Generative Grammar • Generative Grammatik • genes • Genetic • genetic code • grammar • Hardcover, Softcover / Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • HC/Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • kognitive Semantik • Linguistic • Linguistic code • Lopez • Origin of language • Resembles • Sprachlicher Code • wildgen • Wolfgang
ISBN-10	3-03910-654-6 / 3039106546
ISBN-13	978-3-03910-654-7 / 9783039106547
Zustand	Neuware