Language in Deep Human History : : An Evolutionary Story / / Richard J. Watts.
Understanding the evolution of language within the context of deep human history requires interdisciplinary work between linguists and scientists from a wide range of academic disciplines (e. g. archaeology, molecular biology, anthropology, genetics, biochemistry, etc.). The book aims to calibrate w...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2024] ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interdisciplinary Linguistics [INTLING] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 349 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction. Medawar leaps
- Chapter 1 Story-telling, Lane’s story, and epigenetic inheritance
- Chapter 2 Language and conceptual integration
- Chapter 3 Homo as a container, life in the Great Rift Valley and human bonding
- Chapter 4 The brain, the larynx and mirror neuron systems
- Chapter 5 Homo habilis and the beginning of symbolic communication
- Chapter 6 The dispersal of Homo erectus: The “muddle in the middle”
- Chapter 7 Building a language: From concepts and functions to constructions without rules
- Chapter 8 Language, fire and symbolic containers of ritual
- Chapter 9 The linguistic worlds of H. heidelbergensis: language and “Theory of Mind”
- Chapter 10 The counterfactual worlds of early modern humans: H. sapiens’s sorties into real and unreal worlds
- Chapter 11 H. sapiens, the rolling stone that gathered moss
- Chapter 12 The reunion that wasn’t and the challenge that is
- Glossary
- References
- Person index
- Subject index