The Domestication of Language : : Cultural Evolution and the Uniqueness of the Human Animal / / Daniel Cloud.
Language did not evolve only in the distant past. Our shared understanding of the meanings of words is ever-changing, and we make conscious, rational decisions about which words to use and what to mean by them every day. Applying Charles Darwin's theory of "unconscious artificial selection...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Where Do Words Come From?
- 2. The Conventions of a Human Language
- 3. The Evolution of Signals
- 4. Varieties of Biological Information
- 5. The Strange Case of the Chimpanzee
- 6. The Problem of Maladaptive Culture
- 7. The Cumulative Consequences of a Didactic Adaptation
- 8. Meaning, Interpretation, and Language Acquisition
- 9. What's Accomplished in Conversation?
- 10. Recapitulation and Moral
- References
- Index