Author: William Peter Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Language and Social Behaviour
Author: William Peter Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Social Origins of Language
Author: Robert M. Seyfarth
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140088814X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
How human language evolved from the need for social communication The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language—in its modern form—remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new path toward its resolution. In the lead essay, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney draw on their decades-long pioneering research on monkeys and baboons in the wild to show how primates use vocalizations to modulate social dynamics. They argue that key elements of human language emerged from the need to decipher and encode complex social interactions. In other words, social communication is the biological foundation upon which evolution built more complex language. Seyfarth and Cheney’s argument serves as a jumping-off point for responses by John McWhorter, Ljiljana Progovac, Jennifer E. Arnold, Benjamin Wilson, Christopher I. Petkov and Peter Godfrey-Smith, each of whom draw on their respective expertise in linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Michael Platt provides an introduction, Seyfarth and Cheney a concluding essay. Ultimately, The Social Origins of Language offers thought-provoking viewpoints on how human language evolved.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140088814X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
How human language evolved from the need for social communication The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language—in its modern form—remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new path toward its resolution. In the lead essay, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney draw on their decades-long pioneering research on monkeys and baboons in the wild to show how primates use vocalizations to modulate social dynamics. They argue that key elements of human language emerged from the need to decipher and encode complex social interactions. In other words, social communication is the biological foundation upon which evolution built more complex language. Seyfarth and Cheney’s argument serves as a jumping-off point for responses by John McWhorter, Ljiljana Progovac, Jennifer E. Arnold, Benjamin Wilson, Christopher I. Petkov and Peter Godfrey-Smith, each of whom draw on their respective expertise in linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Michael Platt provides an introduction, Seyfarth and Cheney a concluding essay. Ultimately, The Social Origins of Language offers thought-provoking viewpoints on how human language evolved.
Pro-Social Language
Author: Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Publisher: Apricot, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780967972015
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to describe the connections among learning to behave, the use of language to help a child learn to think, in order to behave in pro-social ways, and how to foster higher order thinking for improved pro-social behavior. This book describes the learning processes and relationships among thinking, language, and learning to behave.
Publisher: Apricot, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780967972015
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to describe the connections among learning to behave, the use of language to help a child learn to think, in order to behave in pro-social ways, and how to foster higher order thinking for improved pro-social behavior. This book describes the learning processes and relationships among thinking, language, and learning to behave.
Language as Social Behavior
Author: Walter Barnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Language As Social Action
Author: Thomas M. Holtgraves
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135672652
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
"Topics covered include speech act theory and indirect speech acts, politeness and the interpersonal determinants of language, language and impression management and person perception, conversational structure, perspective taking, and language and social thought."--Jacket
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135672652
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
"Topics covered include speech act theory and indirect speech acts, politeness and the interpersonal determinants of language, language and impression management and person perception, conversational structure, perspective taking, and language and social thought."--Jacket
Language and social behavior
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics
Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500937
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500937
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.
Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction
Author: Taiwo, Rotimi
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1615207740
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
A compendium of over 50 scholarly works on discourse behavior in digital communication.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1615207740
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
A compendium of over 50 scholarly works on discourse behavior in digital communication.
Language and Human Behavior
Author: Shahrzad Mahootian
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524945428
Category : Human evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"This introductory level collection of original readings explores the relationship between language and human social behavior from an applied linguistics perspective."--Introduction.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524945428
Category : Human evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"This introductory level collection of original readings explores the relationship between language and human social behavior from an applied linguistics perspective."--Introduction.
Human Language
Author: Peter Hagoort
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262042630
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization. Language is not only one of the most complex cognitive functions that we command, it is also the aspect of the mind that makes us uniquely human. Research suggests that the human brain exhibits a language readiness not found in the brains of other species. This volume brings together contributions from a range of fields to examine humans' language capacity from multiple perspectives, analyzing it at genetic, neurobiological, psychological, and linguistic levels. In recent decades, advances in computational modeling, neuroimaging, and genetic sequencing have made possible new approaches to the study of language, and the contributors draw on these developments. The book examines cognitive architectures, investigating the functional organization of the major language skills; learning and development trajectories, summarizing the current understanding of the steps and neurocognitive mechanisms in language processing; evolutionary and other preconditions for communication by means of natural language; computational tools for modeling language; cognitive neuroscientific methods that allow observations of the human brain in action, including fMRI, EEG/MEG, and others; the neural infrastructure of language capacity; the genome's role in building and maintaining the language-ready brain; and insights from studying such language-relevant behaviors in nonhuman animals as birdsong and primate vocalization. Section editors Christian F. Beckmann, Carel ten Cate, Simon E. Fisher, Peter Hagoort, Evan Kidd, Stephen C. Levinson, James M. McQueen, Antje S. Meyer, David Poeppel, Caroline F. Rowland, Constance Scharff, Ivan Toni, Willem Zuidema
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262042630
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization. Language is not only one of the most complex cognitive functions that we command, it is also the aspect of the mind that makes us uniquely human. Research suggests that the human brain exhibits a language readiness not found in the brains of other species. This volume brings together contributions from a range of fields to examine humans' language capacity from multiple perspectives, analyzing it at genetic, neurobiological, psychological, and linguistic levels. In recent decades, advances in computational modeling, neuroimaging, and genetic sequencing have made possible new approaches to the study of language, and the contributors draw on these developments. The book examines cognitive architectures, investigating the functional organization of the major language skills; learning and development trajectories, summarizing the current understanding of the steps and neurocognitive mechanisms in language processing; evolutionary and other preconditions for communication by means of natural language; computational tools for modeling language; cognitive neuroscientific methods that allow observations of the human brain in action, including fMRI, EEG/MEG, and others; the neural infrastructure of language capacity; the genome's role in building and maintaining the language-ready brain; and insights from studying such language-relevant behaviors in nonhuman animals as birdsong and primate vocalization. Section editors Christian F. Beckmann, Carel ten Cate, Simon E. Fisher, Peter Hagoort, Evan Kidd, Stephen C. Levinson, James M. McQueen, Antje S. Meyer, David Poeppel, Caroline F. Rowland, Constance Scharff, Ivan Toni, Willem Zuidema