Studies in Language Origins
Volume 1
Published on 1. January 1989
Book
Hardback
332 pages
978-1-55619-054-4 (ISBN)
Description
The question of language origin has fascinated people for years. Traditionally, humanists like linguists and philosophers attempted to solve it with limited success. In the last decades, however, the sciences have begun to study the same question seemingly with more success. This book is the result of the activities of a group of scholars, members of the Language Origins Society, who approach the problem not only from the viewpoint of linguistics, but also from that of anatomy, physiology, social sciences, physical anthropology, paleoanthropology, paleontology, comparative zoology, general biology, ethology, evolutionary biology and psychology. The volume thus clearly reflects the interdisciplinary approach the Language Origins Society is advocating. Since this book is the first of a series meant for the general scholar, it attempts to avoid specialist jargon. Hence it is equally useful for student courses in linguistics, social sciences, communication science, ethology, evolutionary biology and speech therapy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-054-4 (9781556190544)
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Content
1. Notes on contributors; 2. Introduction: Language origins: A fresh start (by Bichakjian, Bernard H.); 3. The origin of language: The general problem (by Allott, Robin); 4. Gesture and deixis (by Rolfe, Leonard); 5. Moulded gestures and guided syntax: Scenario of a linguistic breakthrough (by Yau, Shun-chiu); 6. A student of oral traditions looks at the origins of language (by Creed, Robert Payson); 7. The meaning of duality of patterning and its importance in language evolution (by Pulleyblank, Edward G.); 8. Language origins and the red marble theory (by Key, Mary Ritchie); 9. Glossogenesis in endolinguistic and exolinguistic perspective: Palaeoanthropological data (by Grolier, Eric de); 10. The Upper Palaeolithic expansion of supernaturalism and the advent of fully developed spoken language (by Hewes, Gordon W.); 11. The domestication of fire and the origins of language (by Goudsblom, J.); 12. The evolutionary history of the human speech organs (by Wind, Jan); 13. The Aquatic Ape Theory and the origin of speech (by Morgan, Elaine); 14. Language innateness and speech pathology (by Bichakjian, Bernard H.); 15. Language origin and the Island of Reil (Insula Reilii) (by Irsigler, F.J.); 16. The vestibular system and language evolution (by Daniel, Hal J.); 17. Acoustical communication in birds and its differences from human language (by Dhondt, Andre A.); 18. Speech act taxonomy, chimpanzee communication, and the evolutionary basis of language (by Reiss, Nira); 19. Author index; 20. Subject index