03078cam a2200505 i 4500 16401 16401 19271820 OSt 20200724101231.0 160913t20172017enk b 001 0 eng d 2016953717 GBB744210 bnb 018262575 Uk 9780198847243 (OCoLC)ocn962330769 ERASA eng ERASA rda OCLCO YDX BDX BTCTA NLE OCLCO OCLCF GUA GSU CHVBK OCLCO GZM MYG EQO UKMGB DLC lccopycat P37 .R4 2017 410 REB Reboul, Anne, author. Cognition and communication in the evolution of language / Anne Reboul. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017. ©2017 xii, 261 pages ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index. Introduction -- The need for a dual account of language evolution -- The specificity of the human conceptual apparatus -- Merge and the lexicalization of concepts -- A mildly Machiavellian view of communication and the Argumentative Theory of Reasoning -- Conclusion. 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. Language and languages Origin. Psycholinguistics. Biolinguistics. Biolinguistics. fast (OCoLC)fst00832187 Language and languages Origin. fast (OCoLC)fst00992183 Psycholinguistics. fast (OCoLC)fst01081323 Kognition gnd Kommunikation gnd Sprachentwicklung gnd Oxford studies in biolinguistics. 7 cbc copycat 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg ddc RFT 0 0 ddc 0 0 R-16/4 AIISH AIISH 2020-07-24 0 410 REB 22355 2020-07-24 00:00:00 2020-07-24 RFT 0 0 ddc 0 0 28/1 AIISH AIISH 2020-07-24 0 410 REB;1 22356 2020-07-24 00:00:00 2020-07-24 STS