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Das Forschungsfeld zur Evolution menschlicher Sprachbefähigung zeigt sich als in höchstem Maße multidisziplinär sowie methodisch und theoretisch heterogen. Diese Monografie verfolgt drei für die einschlägige Forschung relevante Ziele. Erstens werden für die Sprachursprungsforschung notwendige fachliche und methodische Grundlagen einführend aufbereitet. Zweitens wird ein Methodenkatalog erarbeitet, welcher sich aus allgemeinen Prinzipien der Wissenschaftstheorie, Qualitätskriterien etablierter (meta)wissenschaftlicher Vorgehensweisen sowie Leitlinien guter Literaturrezeption ableitet, um ein methodisches Instrument zum leistungsfähigen Umgang mit der einschlägigen Literatur vorzulegen. Drittens wird ebenjener Methodenkatalog exemplarisch auf mehrere Bereiche der multidisziplinären Forschung angewandt. Dabei zeigt sich, dass zu innerhalb der Literatur scheinbar unsicheren, da widersprüchlich diskutierten, Positionen und Argumentationslinien durchaus vergleichsweise klare und valide Aussagen gemacht werden können. Dies betrifft sowohl theoretische Konzeptualisierungen als auch empirisch orientierte Interpretationen. Umfasst werden innerhalb der Analyse Disziplinen von der Linguistik über die Paläoanthropologie und die Neurologie bis zur Genetik. This book provides a comprehensive and innovative exploration of the heterogenous field of linguistic evolution. The introductory sections discuss its subject-specific and methodological foundations. The main focus is the development and application of (meta)scientific methods for the systematic reception of the interdisciplinary research landscape. This volume analyses the methodology, theory and empiricism of various disciplines and fields.

Language evolution. --- biolinguistics. --- interdisciplinarity. --- origin of language. --- Language and languages - Origin --- Psycholinguistics --- Language and languages

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The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists. This groundbreaking book explores the cultural side of language evolution. It proposes a new overarching framework based on linguistic selection and self-organization and explores it in depth through sophisticated computer simulations and robotic experiments. Each case study investigates how a particular type of language system can emerge in a population of language game playing age

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sociolinguistics --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Linguistic paleontology. --- Language and languages --- Ethnolinguistique --- Paléontologie linguistique --- Langage et langues --- Origin. --- Origines --- Language and languages -- Origin. --- Language and languages - Origin. --- Anthropological linguistics --- Linguistic paleontology --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Origin --- Paléontologie linguistique --- Paleontology (Linguistics) --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Reconstruction (Linguistics) --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Etymology

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Iedereen heeft wel een mening over taal. Over het gebruik van hun hebben, over de taal van Cruijff, over sms-taal, over Engelse woorden in het Nederlands. Maar wat weten we eigenlijk van taal? In De taalcanon komen alle belangrijke vragen over taal aan bod. Kun je je moedertaal ook vergeten? Verschilt een gebarentaal per land? Bestaat er een talenknobbel? Kun je een nieuwe taal bedenken? Is er ooit één oertaal geweest? Praten mannen en vrouwen verschillend? Hoe werkt spraakherkenning via de computer? Staan alle woorden in de Van Dale? En: wat is eigenlijk het nut van grammatica? Alle facetten van taal worden in De taalcanon van alle mogelijke kanten belicht. Ruim vijftig taalwetenschappers - zowel de ervaren en gerenommeerde, als de jonge en veelbelovende - schrijven met enthousiasme diepgravend en op een luchtige toon over dat wat hen zo boeit aan taal. Op deze manier wordt het verschijnsel taal voor iedereen inzichtelijk gemaakt.

Language and languages --- Dutch language --- Sociolinguistics --- Miscellanea --- Social aspects --- Origin --- Dutch language. --- Language and languages. --- Linguistics --- Psycholinguistics --- linguïstiek --- 800 --- 800 Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Taalwetenschap --- Taalverwerving --- Taalproblemen --- Taalgebruik --- Dialecten --- Taalgeschiedenis --- Linguïstiek --- Taalprobleem --- Dialect --- Taal --- Limburg (Belgische provincie) --- Geschiedenis --- Spraaktechnologie --- Therapie --- Vlaams --- Vlaanderen --- Emigratie --- sociolinguïstiek --- Language and languages - Miscellanea --- Dutch language - Social aspects --- Language and languages - Origin

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Symbolic thought is what makes us human. Claude Lévi-Strauss stated that we can never know the genesis of symbolic thought, but in this powerful new study Alan Barnard argues that we can. Continuing the line of analysis initiated in Social Anthropology and Human Origins (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Genesis of Symbolic Thought applies ideas from social anthropology, old and new, to understand some of the areas also being explored in fields as diverse as archaeology, linguistics, genetics and neuroscience. Barnard aims to answer questions including: when and why did language come into being? What was the earliest religion? And what form did social organization take before humanity dispersed from the African continent? Rejecting the notion of hunter-gatherers as 'primitive', Barnard hails the great sophistication of the complex means of their linguistic and symbolic expression and places the possible origin of symbolic thought at as early as 130,000 years ago.

Linguistics --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Symbolic anthropology. --- Language and languages --- Human evolution. --- Thought and thinking. --- Origin. --- Symbolic anthropology --- Human evolution --- Thought and thinking --- Origin --- Mind --- Thinking --- Thoughts --- Educational psychology --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Intellect --- Logic --- Perception --- Psycholinguistics --- Self --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Symbolism in anthropology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Language and languages - Origin

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"How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has happened since? This book provides a clear, comprehensive but lively introduction to these interdisciplinary debates. Written in an approachable style, it cuts through the complex, sometimes contradictory and often obscure technical languages used in the different scientific disciplines involved in the study of linguistic evolution. Assuming no background knowledge in these disciplines, the book outlines the physical and neurological structures underlying language systems, and the limits of our knowledge concerning their evolution. Discussion questions and further reading lists encourage students to explore the primary literature further, and the final chapter demonstrates that while many questions still remain unanswered, there is a growing consensus as to how modern human languages have arisen as systems by the interplay of evolved structures and cultural transmission"--

Language and languages --- Anthropological linguistics --- Human evolution --- Origin --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Human evolution. --- Origin. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Linguistics --- Historical & Comparative. --- Language arts & disciplines --- Historical & comparative. --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language and languages - Origin