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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean-Louis Dessalles |
| ISBN: | 0199276234 9780199276233 |
| OCLC Number: | 71329834 |
| Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
| Notes: | French edition, Aux origines du langage, first published by Hermès Science Publications, Paris, 2000. |
| Description: | xi, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I. The place of language in human evolutionary history : 1. Animal communication and human communication -- 2. Culture, languages, and language -- 3. The biological roots of language -- 4. Misapprehensions about the origins of language -- 5. Language as an evolutionary curiosity -- 6. The local optimality of language -- Part II. The functional anatomy of speech : 7. Putting sounds together -- 8. Protolanguage -- 9. The mechanics of syntax -- 10. Syntax and meaning -- 11. The structure of meanings -- 12. The emergence of meaning -- Part III. The ethology of language -- 13. Conversation behaviour -- 14. Language as information -- 15. The birth of argumentation -- 16. Language as an evolutionary paradox -- 17. The political origins of language -- 18. Epilogue : A genesis in three stages ; A new view of language ; Future perspectives. |
| Series Title: | Studies in the evolution of language, 7 |
| Other Titles: | Aux origines du langage. |
| Responsibility: | Jean-Louis Dessalles ; translated by James Grieve. |
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