Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language
Series: Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 September 2019
- ISBN 9780198847243
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 232x157x14 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English 65
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Short description:
This book shows that language, though now routinely used for communication, actually primarily evolved as a system for thought. Anne Reboul proposes a new two-step approach whereby syntax first evolved as a language of thought, which was then externalized for communication due to social selection pressures.
MoreLong description:
This book proposes a new two-step approach to the evolution of language, whereby syntax first evolved as an auto-organizational process for the human conceptual apparatus (as a Language of Thought), and this Language of Thought was then externalized for communication, owing to social selection pressures. Anne Reboul first argues that, despite the routine use of language in communication, current use is not a failsafe guide to adaptive history. She points out that human cognition is as unique in nature as is language as a communication system, suggesting deep links between human thought and language. If language is seen as a communication system, then the specificities of language, its hierarchical syntax, its creativity, and the ability to use it to talk about absent objects, are a mystery. This book shows that approaching language as a system for thought overcomes these problems, and provides a detailed account of both steps in the evolution of language: its evolution for thought and its externalization for communication.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
The need for a dual account of language evolution
The specificity of the human conceptual apparatus
Merge and the lexicalization of concepts
A mildly Machiavellian view of communication and the Argumentative Theory of Reasoning
Conclusion
References
Index
