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How language began : gesture and speech in human evolution /
Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Approaches to the evolution of language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess. Nearly all theorizing about the origins of language either ignores gesture, views it as an add-on or supposes that language began in gesture and was later replaced by speech. David McNeill challenges the popular 'gesture-first' theory that language first emerged in a gesture-only form and proposes a groundbreaking theory of the evolution of language which explains how speech and gesture became unified. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 264 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes chapter notes (pages [223]-235), bibliographical references (pages [236]-256), and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139552257 1139552252 9781139108669 1139108662 1139554719 9781139554718 1316089827 9781316089828 1139564544 9781139564540 1283610868 9781283610865 1139551000 9781139551007 9786613923318 6613923311 1139555960 9781139555968 1139549758 9781139549752 |