Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language

Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language

Reboul, Anne (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod, CNRS and University UCBL-Lyon 1)

Oxford University Press

06/2017

276

Dura

Inglês

9780198747314

15 a 20 dias

This book shows that language, though now routinely used for communication, actually primarily evolved as a system for thought. Anne Reboul proposes a new two-step approach whereby syntax first evolved as a language of thought, which was then externalized for communication due to social selection pressures.
1: Introduction 2: The need for a dual account of language evolution 3: The specificify of the human conceptual apparatus 4: Merge and the lexicalization of concepts 5: A mildly Machiavellian view of communication and the Argumentative Theory of Reasoning 6: Conclusion
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