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Language in Deep Human History : An Evolutionary Story / Richard J. Watts.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Interdisciplinary Linguistics [INTLING] ; 6Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (X, 349 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111238272
  • 9783111238920
  • 9783111238661
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417.7 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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