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- Adopts a unique perspective for analyzing the nature and origin of language, and the biology of language
- Opens up a new evolutionary scenario in which structural and functional aspects of language are unified by biological constraints
- Offers a new and radically evolutionary approach to biolinguistics
Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 12)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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History and State of the Art
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Front Matter
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Towards a Darwinian Biolinguistics
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Front Matter
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Extended Performativity: From Brain Plasticity to Linguistic Pragmatics
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Front Matter
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About this book
The book proposes a model in which the continuity between human and non-human primates is linked to the gradual development of the articulatory and neurocerebral structures, and to a kind of prelinguistic pragmatics which characterizes the common nature of social learning. In contrast, grammatical, semantic and pragmatic skills that mark the learning of historical-natural languages are seen as a rapid acceleration of cultural evolution. The book makes clear that this acceleration will not necessarily favour the long-term adaptations for Homo sapiens.
Keywords
- Chomskyan philosophy of language
- Darwinian linguistics
- biolinguistics
- biological and functional aspects of language
- biological origins of language
- darwinian biolinguistics and cognitive science
- darwinism in linguistics
- human cognition animal cognition
- linguistic pragmatics
- pragmatics and social cognition
- recursion and vocal articulation
- technomorphic thought
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Darwinian Biolinguistics
Book Subtitle: Theory and History of a Naturalistic Philosophy of Language and Pragmatics
Authors: Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone
Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47688-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47686-5Published: 23 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83797-0Published: 15 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47688-9Published: 15 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2214-3807
Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 301
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Psycholinguistics