32.2252, Books: Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics: Verhagen

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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2021 21:06:28
From: Clovis Jaillet [Jaillet at Brill.com]
Subject: Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics: Verhagen

 


Title: Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics 
Series Title: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/view/title/56852 


Author: Arie Verhagen

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004422353 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004422346 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99


Abstract:

In these lectures, Arie Verhagen presents a version of cognitive linguistics
that adheres to both the generalization and cognitive commitments that
characterized the field from the start, and a biological commitment:
understanding language as adaptive behavior of (human) organisms in the
niche(s) that they inhabit. Drawing on the model of biological explanation
(“Tinbergen’s four why’s”), Verhagen shows how proximate (individual level)
and ultimate (population level) explanations apply to several features of
language, shedding new light on basic notions like conventionality and
entrenchment, norms/rules and habits, etc., and their causal connections.
Topics include the relation between language, culture, and thinking, the role
of language in social cognition and narrative, the evolution of sound
structure and grammar, semantic change, and more.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Historical Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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