| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Oxford studies in the evolution of language ; 19
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Studies in the evolution of language ; 19.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book presents a new perspective on the origins of language, and highlights the key role of social and cultural dynamics in driving language evolution. It considers, among other questions, the role of gesture in communication, mimesis, play, dance, and song in extant hunter-gatherer communities, and the time-frame for language evolution. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction : A social perspective on how language began / Daniel Dor, Chris Knight, and Jerome Lewis -- 2. Why we need to move from gene-culture co-evolution to culturally driven co-evolution / Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka -- 3. Niche construction and semiosis : biocultural and social dynamics / Chris Sinha -- 4. Signal evolution and the social brain / Camilla Power -- 5. How can a social theory of language evolution be grounded in evidence? / Sverker Johansson -- 6. The 'poly-modalic' nature of utterances and its relevance for inquiring into language origins / Adam Kendon -- 7. BaYaka Pygmy multi-modal and mimetic communication traditions / Jerome Lewis -- 8. Language presupposes an enchronic infrastructure for social interaction / N.J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell -- 9. The instruction of imagination : language and its evolution as a communication technology / Daniel Dor -- 10. Chimpanzee grooming gestures and sounds : what might they tell us about how language evolved? / Simone Pika -- 11. Vocal communication and social awareness in chimpanzees and bonobos / Zanna Clay and Klaus Zuberbühler -- 12. Why humans and not apes : the social preconditions for the emergence of language / Charles Whitehead -- 13. Language and collective fiction : from children's pretence to social institutions / Emily Wyman -- 14. The time frame of the emergence of modern language and its implications / Dan Dediu and Stephen C. Levinson -- 15. The evolution of ritual as a process of sexual selection / Camilla Power -- 16. The red thread : pigment use and the evolution of collective ritual / Ian Watts -- 17. Language and symbolic culture : an outcome of hunter-gatherer reverse dominance / Chris Knight -- 18. The co-evolution of human intersubjectivity, morality, and language / Jordan Zlatev -- 19. Forever united : the co-evolution of language and normativity / Ehud Lamm -- 20. Why talk? / Jean-Louis Dessalles -- 21. Vocal deception, laughter, and the linguistic significance of reverse dominance / Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis -- 22. Memory, imagination, and the evolution of modern language / Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka -- 23. Transmission biases in the cultural evolution of language : towards an explanatory framework / N.J. Enfield -- 24. Breaking down false barriers to understanding / Luc Steels. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Origin.
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Anthropological linguistics.
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Sociolinguistics.
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anthropological linguistics. |
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sociolinguistics. |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General. |
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Anthropological linguistics. |
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Language and languages -- Origin. |
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Languages & Literatures. |
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Philology & Linguistics. |
| Added Author |
Dor, Danny, 1951- editor.
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Knight, Chris, 1942- editor.
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Lewis, Jerome, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780199665327 |
| ISBN |
9780191779725 (ebook) |
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0191779725 |
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9780191643125 (electronic bk.) |
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0191643122 (electronic bk.) |
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9780199665327 |
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019966532X |
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9780199665334 |
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0199665338 |
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