How Language Began - Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution

Informationen zum Autor David McNeill is Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Chicago. His publications include Gesture and Thought (2005) and Language and Gesture (Cambridge, 2000). Klappentext The first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess. Zusammenfassung Written by one of the pioneers of the field! this is the first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess. David McNeill challenges the popular 'gesture-first' theory and proposes a groundbreaking theory of the evolution of language. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction - gesture and the origin of language; 2. What evolved (in part) - the Growth Point; 3. How it evolved (in part) - Mead's Loop; 4. Effects of Mead's Loop; 5. Ontogenesis in evolution - evolution in ontogenesis; 6. Alternatives, their limits, and the science base of the Growth Point.

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• Authors: David McNeill, David (University of Chicago) McNeill, McNeill David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107021211
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02121-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Approaches to the Evolution of
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures