Adam's tongue : how humans made language, how language made humans / Derek Bickerton.
Tipo de material: TextoDetalles de publicación: New York : Hill and Wang, 2010. Edición: 1rd ed.Descripción: 286 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 978-0-8090-1647-1Tema(s): Evolución humana | Psicolingüística | Lenguaje y lenguasResumen: How language evolved has been called the hardest problem in science. In Adam's Tongue, Derek Bickerton long a leading authority in this field shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn t the only thing that sets us apart from other species our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units words automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe, one that yielded novel innovations ranging from barbed arrowheads to the Apollo spacecraft. Written in Bickerton s lucid and irreverent style, this book is the first to thoroughly integrate the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Sure to be controversial, it will make indispensable reading both for experts in the field and for every reader who has ever wondered how a species as remarkable as ours could have come into existence.Tipo de ítem | Biblioteca de origen | Signatura | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras | Reserva de ítems | Bibliografía recomendada |
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800.1//BER/teo Teoría y epistemología del texto / Enrique Bernárdez | 800.1/BEU/sem La semiótica : teorías del signo y el lenguaje en la historia / Mauricio Beuchot | 800.1/BHA/psy Psycholinguistic : an introduction / Raj Nath Bhat | 800.1/BIC/ada Adam's tongue : how humans made language, how language made humans / Derek Bickerton. | 800.1/BIR/int Introduction to pragmatics / Betty J. Birner | 800.1/BIR/int Introduction to pragmatics / Betty J. Birner | 800.1/BLA/ele Éléments de sociolinguistique générale / Philippe Blanchet |
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How language evolved has been called the hardest problem in science. In Adam's Tongue, Derek Bickerton long a leading authority in this field shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn t the only thing that sets us apart from other species our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units words automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe, one that yielded novel innovations ranging from barbed arrowheads to the Apollo spacecraft. Written in Bickerton s lucid and irreverent style, this book is the first to thoroughly integrate the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Sure to be controversial, it will make indispensable reading both for experts in the field and for every reader who has ever wondered how a species as remarkable as ours could have come into existence.
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