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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 11:29:51
From: Katie Laker [klaker at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language Evolution: Botha
Title: Language Evolution
Subtitle: The Windows Approach
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://cambridge.org
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1W6ucHh
Author: Rudolf Botha
Paperback: ISBN: 9781316501078 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 39.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781316501078 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Abstract:
How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct
evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his
fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a
range of other phenomena, serving as windows into this prehistoric process.
These include shell-beads, fossil skulls and ancestral brains, modern pidgin
and creole languages, homesign systems and emergent sign languages, modern
motherese, language use of modern hunter-gatherers, first language
acquisition, similarities between language and music, and comparative animal
behaviour. The first systematic analysis of the Windows Approach, it will be
of interest to students and researchers in many disciplines, including
anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, palaeontology and primatology, as well
as anyone interested in how language evolved.
Part I. Preliminaries: 1. The Windows Approach; 2. Conceptual foundations of
the approach; Part II. Correlate Windows: 3. Sea shells, ancient beads, and
Middle Stone Age symbols; 4. Fossil skulls and ancestral brains; Part III.
Analogue Windows: 5. Incipient pidgins and creoles; 6. Homesign systems and
emergent sign languages; 7. Modern motherese; 8. Hunter-gatherers' use of
language; 9. Language acquisition; Part IV. Abduction Windows: 10. Modern
music and language; 11. Comparative animal behaviour; Part V. Epilogue: 12. A
tool fit for demystifying language evolution?
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng)
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