Adam's tongue: how humans made language, how language made humans
How language evolved has been called "the hardest problem in science." Linguist Derek Bickerton shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. This book is the first that thoroughly integrates the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evol...
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| Zusammenfassung: | How language evolved has been called "the hardest problem in science." Linguist Derek Bickerton shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. This book is the first that thoroughly integrates the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn't the only thing that sets us apart from other species--our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units--words--automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe.--From publisher description. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 286 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9780809022816 0809022818 |
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| adam_text | has been called the hardest problem in science. In
Adam s Tongue, Derek Bickerton
—
long a leading au¬
thority in this field
—
shows how and why previous at¬
tempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking
cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies
of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores,
and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton
produces a dazzling new alternative to the conven¬
tional wisdom.
Language is unique to humans, but it isn t the
only thing that sets us apart from other species
—
our
cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could
there be two separate discontinuities between humans
and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows
how the mere possession of symbolic units
—
words
—
automatically opened a new and different cognitive
universe, one that yielded novel innovations ranging
from barbed arrowheads to the Apollo spacecraft.
Written in Bickerton s lucid and irreverent style,
this book is the first that thoroughly integrates the
story of how language evolved with the story of how
humans evolved. Sure to be controversial, it will make
indispensable reading both for experts in the field and
for every reader who has ever wondered how a species
as remarkable as ours could have come into existence.
ADAM S TONGUE HOW HUMANS MADE LANGUAGE, HOW LANGUAGE MADE HUMANS DEREK
BICKERTON (IJJ) HILL AND WANG A DIVISION OK FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX
NEW YORK CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 1: THE SIZE OF THE PROBLEM 16 2:
THINKING LIKE ENGINEERS 37 3: SINGING APES? 55 4: CHATTING APES? 73 5:
NICHES AREN T EVERYTHING (THEY RE THE ONLY THING) 92 6: OUR ANCESTORS IN
THEIR NICHES 109 7: GO TO THE ANT, THOU SLUGGARD 128 8: THE BIG BANG 146
9: THE CHALLENGE FROM CHOMSKY 169 10: MAKING UP OUR MINDS 192 11: AN
ACORN GROWS TO A SAPLING 211 12: THE SAPLING BECOMES AN OAK 232 NOTES
251 BIBLIOGRAPHY 259 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2J3 INDEX 275
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