The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition /

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition / / Michael Tomasello.

Bridging the gap between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology, Michael Tomasello argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture are based in a cluster of uniquely human cognitive capacities. These include capacities for understanding that others have intentions of their...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Tomasello, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 1 A Puzzle and a Hypothesis
  • 2 Biological and Cultural Inheritance
  • 3 Joint Attention and Cultural Learning
  • 4 Linguistic Communication and Symbolic Representation
  • 5 Linguistic Constructions and Event Cognition
  • 6 Discourse and Representational Redescription
  • 7 Cultural Cognition
  • References
  • Index

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