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Hurford, James R.

 
9780521639644: Approaches to Evolution Language: Social and Cognitive Bases
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ISBN 10: 0521639646 ISBN 13: 9780521639644
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Sinopsis

This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian framework of modern evolutionary theory, without abandoning the vast gains in phonology and syntax achieved by formal linguistics over the past forty years. The contributors, linguists, psychologists, and paleoanthropologists, address such questions as: what is language as a category of behavior; is it an instrument of thought or of communication; what do individuals know when they know a language; what cognitive, perceptual, and motor capacities must they have to speak, hear, and understand a language? For the past two centuries, scientists have tended to see language function as largely concerned with the exchange of practical information. By contrast, this volume takes as its starting point the view of human intelligence as social, and of language as a device for forming alliances, in exploring the origins of the sound patterns and formal structures that characterize language.

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Críticas

"The twenty-two contributors span an impressive diversity of fields...The book has many strengths and is a must-read for serious students of the biology evolution of language." Anthropological Linguistics

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0521639646
ISBN 13 
9780521639644
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Número de páginas
456
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