The Evolution of Human Language. Scenarios, principles, and cultural dynamics.

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Wolfgang Wildgen presents three perspectives on the evolution of language as a key element in the evolution of mankind in terms of the development of human symbol use. (1) He approaches this question by constructing possible scenarios in which mechanisms necessary for symbolic behavior could have de...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wildgen, Wolfgang (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004.
Colección:Advances in consciousness research ; v. 57.
Temas:
Language and languages > Origin.
Langage et langues > Origines.
Language and languages > Origin
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Dedication page
  • LCC page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Basic scenarios and forces in the evolution of human language
  • 2.1. First scenario: Cognitive and physical predispositions for language
  • 2.1.1. Motor rhythms and programs as predispositions for language
  • 2.1.2. Sensory preadaptations for language
  • 2.1.3. The evolution of the neo-cortex as predisposition for language
  • 2.1.4. The evolution of the larynx as predisposition for language
  • 2.2. Second scenario: Bottleneck situations and the rapid evolution of language
  • 2.3. Third scenario: Sexual selection and a run-away evolution of language
  • 2.4. Fourth scenario: Language as a universal symbolic medium
  • 2.5. Initial conclusions
  • Expression and appeal in animal and human communication with special consideration of laughter
  • 3.1. From animal motion to animal sign behavior
  • 3.2. From animal communication to human language
  • 3.3. Laughter and the origin of the comical genre
  • 3.3.1. Classical analyses of laughter and the comical
  • 3.3.2. Laughing in communicative contexts
  • 3.3.3. Neural mechanisms responsible for the comical
  • 3.4. The place of laughter in the evolution of semiotic behavior
  • 3.4.1. Critique of emotional expressivity (and appeal) as origin of language
  • 3.4.2. Argumentation in archaic societies
  • The evolution of cognitive control in tool-making and tool-use and the emergence of a theory of mind
  • 4.1. The vector-space of goal directed motion
  • First cognitive principle of causation: Specification of a vector space
  • 4.2. Instrumentality in higher mammals and man
  • Second cognitive principle of causation: Instrumentality
  • 4.3. Controllers and their semantic consequences
  • 4.4. Mentally or communicatively caused events and theories of mind
  • Third cognitive principle of causation: Theory of mind and mental causation
  • The evolution of pre-historic art and the transition to writing systems
  • 5.1. The evolution of art from the Paleolithic to the Mesolithic
  • 5.1.1. The engravings on tools
  • 5.1.2. Paleolithic sculptures
  • 5.1.3. Paleolithic cave paintings
  • 5.1.4. The representation of humans in a social context
  • 5.2. The topology of Cro-Magnon life space and the semiotic space of decorated caves
  • 5.3. Living and moving forms in the classical cave-paintings (Chauvet, Lascaux and Altamira)
  • 5.4. From iconic schemata to abstract signs and to writing
  • 5.4.1. Rock engravings from the Paleolithic to modern time
  • 5.4.2. The evolution of writing
  • 5.5. Is the esthetical function basic for art and language?
  • Symbolic creativity in language, art, and science and the cultural dynamics of symbolic forms
  • 6.1. Symbolic creativity and human evolution
  • 6.2. Creativity and lexical innovation
  • 6.2.1. Dynamic principles of nominal composition
  • 6.2.2. The dependence of creative compounds on the context
  • 6.2.3. The blending of image and compound in comical texts
  • 6.3. Creativity in art and the dynamics of symbolic innovation
  • 6.3.1. Creativity and symbolic innovation in the art of Leonardo da Vinci
  • 6.3.2. Symbolic abstraction and innovation in the art of William Turner
  • 6.3.3. Creativity and radical analysis of human body postures in the art height8pt depth3pt width0pt of Henry Moore
  • 6.3.4. Remarks on the acceptance of innovation in art
  • 6.4. Creativity in science and the role of mental modeling for the evolution of language
  • 6.5. The evoluti.

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