Language in Deep Human History : An Evolutionary Story /
Watts, Richard J.
Language in Deep Human History : An Evolutionary Story / Richard J. Watts. - 1 online resource (X, 349 p.) - Interdisciplinary Linguistics [INTLING] , 6 2626-9228 ; .
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction. Medawar leaps -- Chapter 1 Story-telling, Lane’s story, and epigenetic inheritance -- Chapter 2 Language and conceptual integration -- Chapter 3 Homo as a container, life in the Great Rift Valley and human bonding -- Chapter 4 The brain, the larynx and mirror neuron systems -- Chapter 5 Homo habilis and the beginning of symbolic communication -- Chapter 6 The dispersal of Homo erectus: The “muddle in the middle” -- Chapter 7 Building a language: From concepts and functions to constructions without rules -- Chapter 8 Language, fire and symbolic containers of ritual -- Chapter 9 The linguistic worlds of H. heidelbergensis: language and “Theory of Mind” -- Chapter 10 The counterfactual worlds of early modern humans: H. sapiens’s sorties into real and unreal worlds -- Chapter 11 H. sapiens, the rolling stone that gathered moss -- Chapter 12 The reunion that wasn’t and the challenge that is -- Glossary -- References -- Person index -- Subject index
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Understanding the evolution of language within the context of deep human history requires interdisciplinary work between linguists and scientists from a wide range of academic disciplines (e. g. archaeology, molecular biology, anthropology, genetics, biochemistry, etc.). The book aims to calibrate work on human evolution with current linguistic theory in an attempt to trace out a scientific story of how human language emerged and developed that has plausibility while remaining open to change through new linguistic and non-linguistic research.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783111238272 9783111238920 9783111238661
10.1515/9783111238661 doi
Evolutionslinguistik.
Kognitive Linguistik.
Konstruktionismus.
Kulturelle Entwicklung.
Soziale Bindung.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Constructionism. Cultural Evolution. Double-Scope Blending. Epigenetic Inheritance. Language Faculty. Social Bonding.
417.7
Language in Deep Human History : An Evolutionary Story / Richard J. Watts. - 1 online resource (X, 349 p.) - Interdisciplinary Linguistics [INTLING] , 6 2626-9228 ; .
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction. Medawar leaps -- Chapter 1 Story-telling, Lane’s story, and epigenetic inheritance -- Chapter 2 Language and conceptual integration -- Chapter 3 Homo as a container, life in the Great Rift Valley and human bonding -- Chapter 4 The brain, the larynx and mirror neuron systems -- Chapter 5 Homo habilis and the beginning of symbolic communication -- Chapter 6 The dispersal of Homo erectus: The “muddle in the middle” -- Chapter 7 Building a language: From concepts and functions to constructions without rules -- Chapter 8 Language, fire and symbolic containers of ritual -- Chapter 9 The linguistic worlds of H. heidelbergensis: language and “Theory of Mind” -- Chapter 10 The counterfactual worlds of early modern humans: H. sapiens’s sorties into real and unreal worlds -- Chapter 11 H. sapiens, the rolling stone that gathered moss -- Chapter 12 The reunion that wasn’t and the challenge that is -- Glossary -- References -- Person index -- Subject index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Understanding the evolution of language within the context of deep human history requires interdisciplinary work between linguists and scientists from a wide range of academic disciplines (e. g. archaeology, molecular biology, anthropology, genetics, biochemistry, etc.). The book aims to calibrate work on human evolution with current linguistic theory in an attempt to trace out a scientific story of how human language emerged and developed that has plausibility while remaining open to change through new linguistic and non-linguistic research.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783111238272 9783111238920 9783111238661
10.1515/9783111238661 doi
Evolutionslinguistik.
Kognitive Linguistik.
Konstruktionismus.
Kulturelle Entwicklung.
Soziale Bindung.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Constructionism. Cultural Evolution. Double-Scope Blending. Epigenetic Inheritance. Language Faculty. Social Bonding.
417.7