The domestication of language : cultural evolution and the uniqueness of the human animal /
Language did not evolve only in the distant past. Our shared understanding of the meanings of words is ever-changing, and we make conscious, rational decisions about which words to use and what to mean by them every day. Applying Darwin's theory of "unconscious artificial selection" t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; 1. Where Do Words Come From?; 2. The Conventions of a Human Language; 3. The Evolution of Signals; 4. Varieties of Biological Information; 5. The Strange Case of the Chimpanzee; 6. The Problem of Maladaptive Culture; 7. The Cumulative Consequences of a Didactic Adaptation; 8. Meaning, Interpretation, and Language Acquisition; 9. What''s Accomplished in Conversation?; 10. Recapitulation and Moral; References; Index.