This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned with different views on the emergence of language, with what language is, how it evolved in the human brain, and finally how this process led to the p…
Origins of Language: A Slim Guide offers a concise and accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language. Non-human animals communicate in simple ways: they may be able to form simple concepts, to feel some limited empathy for others, to…
Language did not evolve only in the distant past. Our shared understanding of the meanings of words is ever-changing, and we make conscious, rational decisions about which words to use and what to mean by them every day. Applying Charles Darwin's theory of "unconscious artificia…
Corballis elabora una teoria completa sul modo in cui il linguaggio si è evoluto da sistema gestuale a parola. Raccogliendo testimonianze da campi disparati come l'antropologia, la neurologia, la linguistica e la psicologia evolutiva, Corballis sostiene la tesi secondo cui il li…
Nel 1866 la Société de Linguistique de Paris vietò con un editto qualsiasi comunicazione relativa al tema dell'origine del linguaggio. Per quanto gli studi sulla comunicazione umana abbiano conseguito successi enormi, le resistenze e i sospetti di molti studiosi contemporanei ne…
Nel 1866 la Société de Linguistique de Paris vietò con un editto qualsiasi comunicazione relativa al tema dell'origine del linguaggio. Per quanto gli studi sulla comunicazione umana abbiano conseguito successi enormi, le resistenze e i sospetti di molti studiosi contemporanei ne…
Nel 1866 la Société de Linguistique de Paris vietò con un editto qualsiasi comunicazione relativa al tema dell'origine del linguaggio. Per quanto gli studi sulla comunicazione umana abbiano conseguito successi enormi, le resistenze e i sospetti di molti studiosi contemporanei ne…
"Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human 'instinct' pre-programmed in us from birth. In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdo…
"Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human 'instinct' pre-programmed in us from birth. In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdo…
How Language Began revolutionizes our understanding of the one tool that has allowed us to become the "lords of the planet." Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on…
"Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping h…
A pioneering linguist upends widely held beliefs about the acquisition and use of language by debunking theories on a wide range of disciplines and through citing examples from his four decades of field work with Amazonian hunter-gatherers. -- "Mankind has a distinct advantage …
"Language, Feeling, and the Brain attempts to apply the fruits of new research in emotion to our understanding of language itself. Building on Karl Pribram's integrated model of emotions and motivations, the book takes an eclectic approach to explaining how emotions contribute t…
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Population diversity and language diversity; 3. What did prehistoric people do?; 4. How did prehistoric people think?; 5. Narratives of the every-day; 6. Mythological narratives; 7. Sexual selection and language evolution; 8. …
"For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early humans had language, either spoken or signed. Ta…
