The evolution of human language: scenarios, principles, and cultural dynamics
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments xi
Chapter 1
Introduction 1
Chapter 2
Basic scenarios and forces in the evolution of human language 5
2.1 First scenario: Cognitive and physical predispositions
for language 5
2.2 Second scenario: Bottleneck situations and the rapid evolution
of language 15
2.3 Third scenario: Sexual selection and a run away evolution
of language 17
2.4 Fourth scenario: Language as a universal symbolic medium 20
2.5 Initial conclusions 23
Chapter 3
Expression and appeal in animal and human communication with
Special considerationof laughter 25
3.1 From animal motion to animal sign behavior 28
3.2 From animal communication to human language 29
3.3 Laughter and the originof the comicalgenre 31
3.4 The place of laughter in the evolution of semiotic behavior 37
Chapter 4
The evolution of cognitive control in tool making and tool use and
the emergence of a theory of mind 43
4.1 The vector spaceofgoal directed motion 45
4.2 Instrumentality in higher mammals and man 48
4.3 Controllers and their semantic consequences 55
4.4 Mentally or communicatively caused events and theories
ofmind 56
Chapter 5
The evolution of pre historic art and the transition to writing Systems 61
5.1 The evolution of art from the Paleolithicto the Mesolithic 61
5.2 The topology of Cro Magnon life space and the semiotic space
of decorated caves 70
5.3 Living and moving forms in the classical cave paintings
(Chauvet, Lascaux and Altamira) 75
5.4 From iconic Schemata to abstract signs and to writing 80
5.5 Is the esthetical function basic for art and language? 90
Chapter 6
Symbolic creativity in language, art, and science and the cultural
dynamics of symbolic forms 93
6.1 Symbolic creativity and human evolution 93
6.2 Creativity and lexical innovation 97
6.3 Creativity in art and the dynamics of symbolic innovation 111
6.4 Creativity in science and the role of mental modeling for the
evolution of language 127
6.5 The evolutionary dynamics of symbolic innovation 132
Chapter 7
"Fossils" of evolution in the lexicon of HAND and EYE
(mainly in German, English and French) 137
7.1 Preliminary remarks on morphological continuity, linguistic
"fossils" and conceptual development 137
7.2 A comparative analysis of the object category HAND
in different languages 140
7.3 A comparative analysis oftheobject category EYE 144
7.4 The synergetics of hand and eye, ear and mouth as dynamic
threshold for higher symbolic behavior 148
7.5 The lexicon of HAND and EYE as a starting point for syntactic
deep structures 150 ¦
7.6 The emergence of a syntactic "machinery" 154
7.7 Some methodological conclusions 156
Chapter 8
The form of a "protolanguage" and the contours of a theory
of language evolution 159
8.1 An informed guess at the form of protolanguage 161
8.2 The format of an evolutionary grammar 164
8.3 The contours ofa theory of language evolution 175
Chapter 9
Symbolic forms, generalized media, and their evolution 185
9.1 Symbol formation and symbolic forms (in Cassirer's philosophy
of symbolic forms) 186
9.2 Sociological modeis ofsemiotic genres (Luhmann, Habermas) 190
9.3 The evolution of symbolic forms and generalized media 195
Chapter 10
Consciousness, linguistic universals, and the methodology of linguistics 199
10.1 Consciousness and linguistic signs 200
10.2 Linguistic universals based on evolutionary principles 202
10.3 Consequences for linguistic methodology 204
Notes 209
References 215
Index of proper names 229
Subject index 233
Index of principles and hypotheses 237 |
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