Cognitive Linguistics and Language Evolution

This Element gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art of language evolution research and discusses how cognitive linguistics and research on the evolution of language can cross-fertilise each other. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Comparing the 'design features' of language and animal communication; 3. Signing apes and talking birds: language-trained animals; 4. Cooperation and communication: the joint attention hypothesis; 5. Language evolution in the lab; 6. Real-world language dynamics: what language emergence and change reveal about evolution; 7. A usage-based perspective on the evolution of language; References.

Summary

This Element gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art of language evolution research and discusses how cognitive linguistics and research on the evolution of language can cross-fertilise each other. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Foreword

This Element brings together Cognitive Linguistics and language evolution research.

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Hartmann, Hartmann Stefan, Michael Pleyer, Michael (Nicholas Copernicus University of Pleyer, Michael (Nicolaus Copernicus University Pleyer, Michael (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Pleyer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781009476065
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0947606-5
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Elements in Cognitive Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Communication Studies, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication, Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication