28.2249, Books: Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language: Reboul

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Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 11:04:59
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language: Reboul

 


Title: Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cognition-and-communication-in-the-evolution-of-language-9780198747314 


Author: Anne Reboul

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198747314 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 90.00


Abstract:

This book proposes a new two-step approach to the evolution of language,
whereby syntax first evolved as an auto-organizational process for the human
conceptual apparatus (as a Language of Thought), and this Language of Thought
was then externalized for communication, due to social selection pressures.
Anne Reboul first argues that despite the routine use of language in
communication, current use is not a failsafe guide to adaptive history. She
points out that human cognition is as unique in nature as is language as a
communication system, suggesting deep links between human thought and
language. If language is seen as a communication system, then the
specificities of language, its hierarchical syntax, its creativity, and the
ability to use it to talk about absent objects, are a mystery. This book shows
that approaching language as a system for thought overcomes these problems,
and provides a detailed account of both steps in the evolution of language:
its evolution for thought and its externalization for communication.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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