Speaking our minds : why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special /: why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thomas C. Scott-Phillips.
• Authors: Scott-Phillips, Thomas C
• Contents: Cover ; Half-Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; 1. Two Approaches to Communication ; 1.1 "A good old fi ddle" ; 1.2 The code model ; 1.3 The expression and recognition of intentions ; 1.4 The ostensive-inferential model ; 1.5 Natural codes and conventional codes ; 1.6 Two meanings of meaning. 2. The Emergence of Communication Systems 2.1 Combinatorial communication ; 2.2 The functional interdependence of signals and responses ; 2.3 A chicken-and-egg problem ; 2.4 The improbability of combinatorial communication ; 2.5 Ostension and inference: a third route to communication. 2.6 The creation of combinatorial communication 2.7 Continuity and discontinuity in the origins of language ; 3. Cognition and Communication ; 3.1 Pragmatic competence ; 3.2 The maxims of conversation ; 3.3 A paradigm for pragmatics. 3.4 Recursive mindreading and ostensive communication: the theory 3.5 Recursive mindreading and ostensive communication: the data ; 3.6 Cooperation and communication ; 4. The Origins of Ostensive Communication ; 4.1 Communication and the comparative method. 4.2 The difference between intentional and ostensive communication 4.3 Do great apes communicate with ostension and inference? ; 4.4 Do great apes communicate with natural codes? ; 4.5 Mindreading in non-human primates ; 4.6 The social brain ; 4.7 The advent of ostensive communication.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 417/.7; Linguistics; Language and languages -- Origin; Historical linguistics; Language and languages -- Etymology; Life Sciences/Evolution; Language; Linguistics/Pragmatics; Psychology; Anthropology; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General; Historical linguistics; Language and languages -- Etymology; Language and languages -- Origin; Psycholinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Psycholinguistics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137312730; 1137312734
• Related ISBNs: 9781137315632; 1137315636; 1137334568; 1137334576; 9781137334572; 9781137334565
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-182) and indexes.
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