How Language Began : Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution
David. McNeill
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University press , 2012
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (280 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; How Language Began; Approaches to the Evolution of Language; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface - Out on a limb; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction - gesture and the origin of language; 1.1 THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE; 1.1.1 How this book differs; 1.2 WHAT IS "GESTURE"?; 1.2.1 Definitions of "gesture"; 1.3 THE GESTURE CONTINUUM; 1.3.1 Dimensions; 1.3.2 Semiotic packages; 1.3.3 Timing; 1.3.4 Examples (from the most to the least language-like); 1.4 DETAILS OF SELECTED POINTS; 1.4.1 The emblem; 1.4.2 Pointing; 1.4.3 Gesticulation. - 1.4.3.1 Semiotic opposites and co-expressivity1.4.3.2 The binding of opposites; 1.4.3.3 Metaphors; 1.4.3.4 The beat; 1.4.4 Absorption and layering; 1.5 SUMMARIZING GESTURE; 2 What evolved (in part) - the growth point; 2.1 THE TWO-DIMENSIONS FRAMEWORK; 2.1.1 The dimensions; 2.1.2 The dialectic; 2.1.2.1 How "dialectic" compares to "parole" and "performance"; 2.2 GP PROPERTIES; 2.2.1 Empirical base; 2.2.1.1 The storytelling method; 2.2.1.1.1 Advantages and limits; 2.2.1.1.2 Typological conventions; 2.2.2 Minimal unit; 2.2.3 Examples of GPs; 2.2.3.1 Stimulus; 2.2.4 Co-expressiveness and contrast. - 2.2.4.1 However, synchrony is not fundamental2.3 CONTEXT; 2.3.1 The psychological predicate; 2.3.1.1 What is "a meaning"?; 2.3.2 Psychological predicates - a natural experiment; 2.3.2.1 Inside alone; 2.3.2.2 Inside after outside; 2.3.2.3 Exception that proves the rule; 2.3.3 Psychological predicates - a designed experiment; 2.3.4 Gesture timing embodies context; 2.3.5 GPs in sign languages; 2.4 HOW UTTERANCES OCCUR; 2.4.1 The catchment; 2.4.2 Unpacking and further meanings; 2.4.3 The "molecule analogy"; 2.4.4 Metapragmatic orchestrations; 3 How it evolved (in part) - Mead's Loop. - 3.1 CHAPTER PLAN3.2 "GESTURE-FIRST"; 3.2.1 Problems with gesture-first; 3.2.1.1 Did gesture scaffold speech, then speech supplant it?; 3.2.1.2 Models of supplanting and scaffolding; 3.2.1.2.1 Warlpiri sign language; 3.2.1.2.2 English-ASL bilinguals; 3.2.1.3 The pantomime problem; 3.2.2 Last word on gesture-first; 3.3 MEAD'S LOOP; 3.3.1 Overview; 3.3.2 Straight mirror neurons; 3.3.3 The "twist" and its implications; 3.3.4 How Mead's Loop launched GP properties; 3.3.4.1 The dual semiotic dialectic; 3.3.4.2 The social reference; 3.3.4.3 Origin of psychological predicates. - 3.3.4.4 Origin of catchments3.3.4.5 The equiprimordiality of speech and gesture; 3.3.4.6 But not theory of mind; 3.3.4.7 And not imitation; 3.4 NATURAL SELECTION OF MEAD'S LOOP; 3.4.1 The gestures Mead's Loop could have co-opted; 3.4.2 Adult-infant interaction: nurture into nature; 3.4.3 The scenario; 3.5 ORIGIN OF SYNTAX; 3.5.1 Introduction; 3.5.2 Shareability; 3.5.3 Emerging syntax; 3.5.3.1 Experiment with speech-denial 1 - birth of paradigmatic values; 3.5.3.2 Experiment with speech-denial 2: birth of syntagmatic values; 3.5.4 Rethinking syntax as action control. - 3.5.5 Perception is special. - The first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess.
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| Emner | Language and languages - Origin
Behavior Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Biological Evolution Vis mer... Biological Phenomena
Biological Processes Communication Genetic Phenomena Genetic Processes Gestures Information Science Kinesics Language Nonverbal Communication Phenomena and Processes Psychiatry and Psychology Speech and gesture. Communication & Mass Media Journalism & Communications Languages & Literatures Philology & Linguistics Språk Språkets opprinnelse |
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| ISBN | 9781107021211. - 9781107605497
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