Communication in humans and other animals /

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Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and no...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Håkansson, Gisela
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.
Colección:Advances in interaction studies ; v. 4.
Temas:
Oral communication.
Visual communication.
Human-animal communication.
Language acquisition.
Language Development
Communication orale.
Communication visuelle.
Communication avec les animaux.
Langage > Acquisition.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Communication Studies.
Human-animal communication
Language acquisition
Oral communication
Visual communication
Mensch
Sprache
Nichtverbale Kommunikation
Mündliche Kommunikation
Tiersprache
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1.1. Introducing communicative behaviour
  • 1.1.1. Social life and the need of communication
  • 1.1.2. Linguistic perspectives on communication and language
  • 1.1.3. Biological perspectives on communication
  • 1.1.4. Comparing linguistic and biological perspectives
  • 1.2. Major themes in comparisons between human and animal communication
  • 1.2.1. Hockett's design features
  • 1.2.2. Methodology and research questions
  • 1.2.3. Do animals use displacement?
  • 1.2.4. Do animals have combinatory principles?
  • 1.2.5. Do animal systems have arbitrary content/form relations? Do animals learn the system?
  • 1.2.6. How did language evolve?
  • 1.3. Parent-offspring communication and cooperative breeding
  • 1.4. Summary
  • 1.5. Suggested readings
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Research methods and observational techniques
  • 2.2.1. Playback as a method for investigating communication
  • 2.2.2. Advances in technology influence the methods
  • 2.3. Acoustic communication
  • 2.3.1. When and where?
  • 2.3.2. How? Production and perception
  • 2.3.3. Echolocation and other sounds in dolphins and whales
  • 2.4. Visual communication
  • 2.4.1. When and where?
  • 2.4.2. How? Visual capacities
  • 2.4.3. Colour patterns
  • 2.4.4. Body postures and facial expressions
  • 2.5. Tactile communication
  • 2.5.1. When and where?
  • 2.5.2. How? Skin, whiskers and sidelines
  • 2.6. Indirect tactile signals
  • the seismic signal system
  • 2.7. Chemical communication
  • 2.7.1. When and where?
  • 2.7.2. How?
  • 2.7.3. olfactory system
  • 2.8. Electrical communication
  • 2.9. multimodal honeybee
  • acoustic, visual, chemical, seismic communication
  • 2.10. Summary
  • 2.11. Suggested readings
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.1.1. Social life and the languages of the world
  • 3.1.2. Observation techniques
  • 3.1.3. Language functions
  • 3.2. child's discovery of language
  • the first year of life
  • 3.2.1. Parent-infant interaction
  • 3.2.2. "little universalist"
  • early perception of speech sounds
  • 3.2.3. Early vocalization
  • babbling
  • 3.3. Language in the toddler
  • 3.3.1. Mapping forms to meanings
  • 3.3.2. Cultural differences reflected in children's language
  • 3.3.3. Words and world-views
  • what do you call your cousin?
  • 3.3.4. But what about grammar?
  • 3.3.5. Recursion
  • 3.4. When problems arise
  • Specific Language Impairment
  • 3.5. Second language acquisition
  • organizing language once again
  • 3.6. Sign language
  • another modality
  • 3.7. Summary
  • 3.8. Suggested readings
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.1.1. Research methods and observation techniques 8o
  • 4.2. Functions
  • what do we use nonverbal communication for?
  • 4.2.1. Permanent versus temporary expressions
  • 4.2.2. Synchronising in sympathy
  • 4.3. Acoustic communication
  • 4.3.1. Extralinguistic expressions
  • laughters and cries
  • 4.3.2. Paralinguistic expressions
  • with speech
  • 4.4. Visual communication
  • 4.4.1. Body postures
  • 4.4.2. Hand movements
  • pointing
  • 4.4.3. Other hand gestures
  • 4.4.4. Head and face
  • 4.4.5. Eyes and gaze
  • 4.4.6. Complexion
  • 4.5. Tactile communication
  • 4.6. Chemical communication
  • 4.7. model for analyzing gestures
  • The Ekman and Friesen model
  • 4.8. Where verbal and nonverbal communication meet: Speech-related gestures
  • 4.8.1. McNeill model
  • 4.8.2. Using knowledge of nonverbal expressions in verbal descriptions
  • 4.9. When production is not automatized
  • 4.10. Summary
  • 4.11. Suggested readings
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.1.1. primate family
  • 5.1.2. Social life
  • 5.1.3. Studying nonhuman primates
  • how it all began
  • 5.1.4. Observation techniques
  • 5.2. Communicative functions
  • 5.2.1. referential function
  • first reported in vervet monkeys
  • 5.2.2. social function
  • with focus on synchronization of behaviour
  • 5.3. Acoustic communication
  • 5.3.1. Some vocalizations and their use
  • 5.3.2. Vocal learning in nonhuman primates
  • 5.3.3. Structural aspects of vocalizations
  • do nonhuman primates have syntax?
  • 5.4. Visual communication
  • 5.4.1. Body postures
  • 5.4.2. Hand and arm gestures
  • 5.4.3. Face and gaze
  • 5.5. Tactile communication
  • a lot of grooming
  • 5.6. Chemical communication
  • 5.7. Cultural/dialectal differences
  • results of social learning
  • 5.8. Teaching human language to nonhuman primates
  • 5.8.1. Speech
  • 5.8.2. Sign language
  • 5.8.3. Plastic chips
  • 5.8.4. Computers and lexigrams
  • 5.9. Discussion
  • primary versus secondary communication in nonhuman primates
  • 5.9.1. Primary communication
  • data base
  • 5.9.2. Primary communication
  • functions and structures
  • 5.9.3. Secondary communication
  • human language as a second variety
  • 5.10. Summary
  • 5.11. Suggested readings
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.1.1. Canine class
  • 6.1.2. Social life of wolves and dogs
  • 6.1.3. Observation techniques
  • 6.2. Functions of Canine communication
  • 6.2.1. Social functions
  • 6.2.2. Studies of the referential function
  • 6.3. Acoustic communication
  • 6.3.1. Barking
  • 6.3.2. Growling
  • 6.3.3. Chorus howling in wolves
  • 6.4. Visual communication
  • 6.4.1. Head and face
  • 6.4.2. Tail
  • 6.5. Tactile communication
  • 6.6. Chemical communication
  • 6.7. Developmental patterns in intra-specific communication
  • 6.8. dog in the human family
  • learning to communicate with another species
  • 6.8.1. Dogs' understanding of humans
  • 6.8.2. Humans' understanding of dogs
  • 6.8.3. Not interactional synchrony
  • but accommodation
  • 6.9. Summary
  • 6.10. Suggested readings
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.1.1. Ayes class
  • 7.1.2. Social life of birds
  • 7.1.3. Observation techniques
  • 7.2. Functions
  • why do birds communicate?
  • 7.2.1. Alignment of songs
  • counter-singing and duetting
  • 7.2.2. Referential function in birds
  • the calls of the domestic fowl
  • 7.3. Acoustic communication
  • 7.3.1. Variation across and within species
  • 7.3.2. Structural aspects of song
  • 7.4. Learning how to sing
  • 7.4.1. Sensitive phases and developmental stages
  • 7.4.2. Dialectal differences
  • 7.5. Visual communication
  • 7.5.1. Talking with the tail
  • 7.6. Chemical communication
  • 7.7. Birds and humans
  • 7.7.1. Teaching language to birds
  • 7.8. Summary
  • 7.9. Suggested readings
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.1.1. Social life and communication in humans and animals
  • 8.2. What is so special about language? Revisiting Hockett's predictions
  • 8.3. Why and how did language evolve?
  • 8.3.1. Why and when did it happen?
  • 8.3.2. Are there any parallel changes in human physiology?
  • 8.3.3. Is language a result of cooperative breeding?
  • 8.4. Learning intraspecific communication
  • not only for humans
  • 8.4.1. Child language and animal communication
  • 8.5. Can language be taught to nonhumans?
  • 8.6. Summary
  • 8.7. Suggested readings.

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