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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 388
- Publication Date
- 2007-09-01
- Subject Area
- Language Arts & Disciplines, Science
- Subject
- Communication Studies, Life Sciences / Evolution, Linguistics / Semantics, Linguistics / General
- ISBN
- 9780199207855
- Publication Name
- Origins of Meaning
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Series
- Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 26.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 408 Pages
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199207852
ISBN-13
9780199207855
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60064322
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
408 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Origins of Meaning
Subject
Communication Studies, Life Sciences / Evolution, Linguistics / Semantics, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines, Science
Series
Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
26.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-014220
Reviews
"This very readable and satisfying book is an examination of 'pre-linguistic animal concepts and social lives' which the author supposes 'take us to the brink of modern human language, when the species became for the first time language-ready' The argument, the evidence, and the style encourage the reader to give attention, read on, and look forward with interest to the promised continuation in the next volume. The wealth of studies presented and their informed, insightful, yet cautious interpretation provide probable insight into how and how readily language might have evolved out of animal prelanguage." --Linguist List"This work is a head-spinning, fact-packed examination of how human language came to be, before language was language and humans were human. Drawing from philosophers, linguists, biologists, psychologists, and a range of other thinkers Hurford has constructed the beginning of a unique, interdisciplinary story of the development of language as we know it today. Hurford shows how constant research is closing that gap, a project to which he hopes to contribute in this work and a forthcoming second volume. This first volume has something that everyone will appreciate. Theorists will swim inthe thoughtful examinations of Wittgenstein and Frans de Waal. Scientists will no doubt learn from the plethora of scientific experiments explored throughout. And the thinkers of tomorrow will be introduced to the possibilities of scholarship when one looks beyond rigid disciplinary boundaries." --Science & Spirit"A wonderful read lucid, informative, and entertaining, while at the same time never talking down to the reader by sacrificing argumentation for the sake of simplicity. Likely to be heralded as the major publication dealing with language evolution to date." --Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington, "This very readable and satisfying book is an examination of 'pre-linguistic animal concepts and social lives' which the author supposes 'take us to the brink of modern human language, when the species became for the first time language-ready' The argument, the evidence, and the style encourage the reader to give attention, read on, and look forward with interest to the promised continuation in the next volume. The wealth of studies presented and their informed, insightful, yet cautious interpretation provide probable insight into how and how readily language might have evolved out of animal prelanguage." -- Linguist List "This work is a head-spinning, fact-packed examination of how human language came to be, before language was language and humans were human. Drawing from philosophers, linguists, biologists, psychologists, and a range of other thinkers Hurford has constructed the beginning of a unique, interdisciplinary story of the development of language as we know it today. Hurford shows how constant research is closing that gap, a project to which he hopes to contribute in this work and a forthcoming second volume. This first volume has something that everyone will appreciate. Theorists will swim inthe thoughtful examinations of Wittgenstein and Frans de Waal. Scientists will no doubt learn from the plethora of scientific experiments explored throughout. And the thinkers of tomorrow will be introduced to the possibilities of scholarship when one looks beyond rigid disciplinary boundaries." -- Science & Spirit "A wonderful read lucid, informative, and entertaining, while at the same time never talking down to the reader by sacrificing argumentation for the sake of simplicity. Likely to be heralded as the major publication dealing with language evolution to date." --Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington, To explain the evolution of language, one must explain the evolution of both a system of communication and a system of thought - a way of representing and communicating about the world. In The Origins of Meaning, James Hurford does just this. Writing as a linguist, he clarifies for biologists the complexities that must be explained in an evolutionary account of language, while at the same time illuminating for his colleagues in linguistics the rich communicative and representational abilities of animals - from which we can begin to reconstruct the semantic and pragmatic origins of language. The Origins of Meaning is synthetic, provocative, and intellectually rich., "This very readable and satisfying book is an examination of 'pre-linguistic animal concepts and social lives' which the author supposes 'take us to the brink of modern human language, when the species became for the first time language-ready' The argument, the evidence, and the style encourage the reader to give attention, read on, and look forward with interest to the promised continuation in the next volume. The wealth of studies presented and their informed, insightful, yet cautious interpretation provide probable insight into how and how readily language might have evolved out of animal prelanguage." --Linguist List "This work is a head-spinning, fact-packed examination of how human language came to be, before language was language and humans were human. Drawing from philosophers, linguists, biologists, psychologists, and a range of other thinkers Hurford has constructed the beginning of a unique, interdisciplinary story of the development of language as we know it today. Hurford shows how constant research is closing that gap, a project to which he hopes to contribute in this work and a forthcoming second volume. This first volume has something that everyone will appreciate. Theorists will swim inthe thoughtful examinations of Wittgenstein and Frans de Waal. Scientists will no doubt learn from the plethora of scientific experiments explored throughout. And the thinkers of tomorrow will be introduced to the possibilities of scholarship when one looks beyond rigid disciplinary boundaries." --Science & Spirit "A wonderful read lucid, informative, and entertaining, while at the same time never talking down to the reader by sacrificing argumentation for the sake of simplicity. Likely to be heralded as the major publication dealing with language evolution to date." --Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington, Hurford's aim is nothing less than to bring language into Darwin's reach. Many attempts to press natural selection into innovative service fail through too analogical an approach failing to mesh with the realities of some other discipline. Hurford's sheer practicality and professional appreciation of modern biology have produced a work of the highest academic seriousness that would without question have delighted Darwin himself. The project can fairly be described as the abolitionof the division between linguistics and biology, and has significant broad implications for philosophers and social scientists, as well as more focussed ones for biologists, linguists and anthropologists., A work of the highest academic seriousness that would without question have delighted Darwin himself. The project can fairly be described as the abolition of the division between linguistics and biology, and has significant broad implications for philosophers and social scientists, as well as more focussed ones for biologists, linguists and anthropologists. This major intellectual endeavour promises to transform substantial parts of linguistics and anthropology, and also to provide the most interesting single application ever of the principle of natural selection.
TitleLeading
The
Series Volume Number
8
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
Part I Meaning Beford Communication1. Let's Agree on Terms2. Animals Approach Human Cognition3. A New Kind of Memory Evolves4. Animals Form proto-propositions5. Towards Human SemanticsPart II Communication: What and Why?6. Communication by Dyadic Acts7. Going Triadic: Precursors of Reference8. Why Communicate? Squaring With Evolutionary Theory9. Cooperation, Fair Play and Trust in Primates10. EpilogueBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to be expressed as language. He reviews a mass of evidence to show how close some animals, especially primates and more especially apes, are to the brink of human language. Apes may not talk to us but they construct richcognitive representations of the world around them, and here, he shows, are the evolutionary seeds of abstract thought - the means of referring to objects, the memory of events, even elements of thepropositional thinking philosophers have hitherto reserved for humans. What then, he asks, is the evolutionary path between the non-speaking minds of apes and our own speaking minds? Why don't apes communicate the richness of their thoughts to each other? Why do humans alone have a unique disposition to reveal their thoughts in complex detail? Professor Hurford searches a wide range of evidence for the answers to these central questions, including degrees of trust, the role of hormones, theability to read minds, and the willingness to cooperate. Expressing himself congenially in consistently colloquial language the author builds up a vivid picture of how mind,language, and meaning evolved over millions of years. His book is a landmark contribution to the understanding of linguistic and thinking processes, and the fullest account yet published of the evolution of language and communication."A wonderful read - lucid, informative, and entertaining, while at the same time never talking down to the reader by sacrificing argumentation for the sake of 'simplicity'. Likely to be heralded as the major publication dealing with languageevolution to date. Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington, In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at the origins of meaning and of its expression in language and reviews a mass of evidence to uncover the evolutionary path between the non-speaking minds of apes and our own speaking minds. This is a landmark contribution to the understanding of linguistic and thinking processes, and the fullest account yet published of the evolution of language and communication., In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to be expressed as language. He reviews a mass of evidence to show how close some animals, especially primates and more especially apes, are to the brink of human language. Apes may not talk to us but they construct rich cognitive representations of the world around them, and here, he shows, are the evolutionary seeds of abstract thought - the means of referring to objects, the memory of events, even elements of the propositional thinking philosophers have hitherto reserved for humans. What then, he asks, is the evolutionary path between the non-speaking minds of apes and our own speaking minds? Why don't apes communicate the richness of their thoughts to each other? Why do humans alone have a unique disposition to reveal their thoughts in complex detail? Professor Hurford searches a wide range of evidence for the answers to these central questions, including degrees of trust, the role of hormones, the ability to read minds, and the willingness to cooperate. Expressing himself congenially in consistently colloquial language the author builds up a vivid picture of how mind, language, and meaning evolved over millions of years. His book is a landmark contribution to the understanding of linguistic and thinking processes, and the fullest account yet published of the evolution of language and communication. "A wonderful read - lucid, informative, and entertaining, while at the same time never talking down to the reader by sacrificing argumentation for the sake of 'simplicity'. Likely to be heralded as the major publication dealing with language evolution to date. Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington, In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to be expressed as language. He reviews a mass of evidence to show how close some animals, especially primates and more especially apes, are to the brink of human language. Apes may not talk to us but they construct rich cognitive representations of the world around them, and here, he shows, are the evolutionary seeds of abstract thought - the means of referring to objects, the memory of events, even elements of the propositional thinking philosophers have hitherto reserved for humans. What then, he asks, is the evolutionary path between the non-speaking minds of apes and our own speaking minds? Why don't apes communicate the richness of their thoughts to each other? Why do humans alone have a unique disposition to reveal their thoughts in complex detail? Professor Hurford searches a wide range of evidence for the answers to these central questions, including degrees of trust, the role of hormones, the ability to read minds, and the willingness to cooperate. Expressing himself congenially in consistently colloquial language the author builds up a vivid picture of how mind, language, and meaning evolved over millions of years. His book is a landmark contribution to the understanding of linguistic and thinking processes, and the fullest account yet published of the evolution of language and communication."A wonderful read - lucid, informative, and entertaining, while at the same time never talking down to the reader by sacrificing argumentation for the sake of 'simplicity'. Likely to be heralded as the major publication dealing with language evolution to date. Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington
LC Classification Number
P325.H79 2007
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