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L'homme communiquant
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ISBN: 2200312245 9782200312244 Year: 1986 Publisher: Paris : Armand Colin,


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Annals of the International Communication Association
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ISSN: 23808977 23808985 Publisher: Colchester Taylor & Francis

Misconceptions about the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780415770538 9780415871136 9780203932421 0415871131 041577053X 9781135986629 9781135986667 9781135986674 Year: 2008 Volume: 7 Publisher: New York London Routledge

Bio-linguistics : the Santa Barbara lectures
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ISBN: 9027225915 1588112268 9027225907 158811225X 9789027225917 9786612160844 1282160842 9027296065 9789027296061 9781588112255 9781588112262 9789027225900 Year: 2002 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,

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Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and linguists from Plato through Chomsky. Prof. Givón suggests that the answers fall naturally within an integrated study of living organisms.In this new work, Givón points out that language operates between aspects of both complex biological design and adaptive behavior. As in biology, the whole is an adaptive compromise to competing demands. Variation is the indispensable tool of learning, change and adaptation. The contrast between innateness and input-driven emergence is an interaction between genetically-coded and behaviorally-coded experience.In enlarging the cross-disciplinary domain, the book examines the parallels between language evolution and language diachrony. Sociality, cooperation and communication are shown to be rooted in a common evolutionary source, the kin-based hunting-and-gathering society of intimates.The book pays homage to the late Joseph Greenberg and his visionary integration of functional motivation, typological diversity and diachronic change.


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Gezinsterapie als agogische aktie: aspekten van hulpverlening aan gezinnen beschouwd vanuit de kommunikatieteorie van Palo Alto
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ISBN: 9024410126 Year: 1973 Publisher: Bloemendaal Nelissen


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Metasemantics and Intersectionality in the Misinformation Age
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ISBN: 9783030733391 9783030733407 9783030733414 9783030733384 3030733394 3030733386 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan


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Journal of communication
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ISSN: 00219916 14602466 Publisher: Philadelphia Oxford University

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