Hill and Wang, 2010. — 304 p. How language evolved has been called “the hardest problem in science.” In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Adam's Tongue is an extraordinary book. It tackles one of the most fascinating questions in human evolution, challenging many...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. — 329 p. — (Human Cognitive Processing 65). Human language is the most powerful communication system that evolution has produced. Within this system, we can talk about things we can physically see, such as cats and tables, but also about more abstract entities, such as theories and feelings. But how are these abstract concepts grounded...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 312 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-16094-8, 978-0-691-14547-1. The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. "I...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. — 200 p. This book offers an introduction to the multidisciplinary subject of evolutionary linguistics, which seeks to explain the biological origins of language and its subsequent development in humans. Roughly six million years ago, a branch of hominids from the forests of East Africa started to thrive in the drier environment created by the East...
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton, 2017. — 352 p. Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive...
Bollati Boringhieri, 2021. — 389 p. Questa Storia universale delle lingue offre per la prima volta al pubblico italiano una panoramica completa delle origini e degli sviluppi del linguaggio nel lungo percorso dell’umanità, seguendo le interazioni fra diverse culture e l’evoluzione linguistica contemporanea. Nell’affascinante intreccio di epoche e civiltà, Harald Haarmann...
C.H.Beck, 2016. — 398 S. Harald Haarmann legt mit diesem Buch erstmals in deutscher Sprache eine moderne Universalgeschichte der Sprachen vor. Er beschreibt, was wir über die Sprachfähigkeit der frühesten Menschen wissen, in welchen Stufen sich die komplexe Sprache des Homo sapiens entwickelte und wie die vergleichende Sprachforschung das Nostratische als älteste bekannte...
Date of Publication: May 18, 2019 ISBN # 9781529411409 ASIN # 1529411408 Book Genre: Anthropology, History, Language, Linguistics, Nature, Nonfiction, Science Edition Language: English Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors...
Profile Books, 2024. — 544 p. The relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human. The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages...
Routledge, 2003. — 284 p. In this new study, author David Paxman demonstrates that ordinary spatial concepts, together with the changing sense of the earth's space brought about by exploration, navigation, and mapping exerted a strong influence on linguistic thought. Paxman illuminates how our thinking about language as a whole, as well as our exploration of languages,...
Harper Collins, 2010. — 545 p. The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind. In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved....
MIT Press, 2021. — 296 p. A novel account of the evolution of language and the cognitive capacities on which language depends. In From Signal to Symbol , Ronald Planer and Kim Sterelny propose a novel theory of language: that modern language is the product of a long series of increasingly rich protolanguages evolving over the last two million years. Arguing that language and...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 184 p. — (Edited and Introduced by Michael L. Platt). 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...
Virgin Books, 2014. — 272 p. Witty and erudite, Written in Stone is the first etymology book to reveal how the English language is based on original Stone Age words. Half the world’s population speaks a language that has evolved from a single, prehistoric mother tongue. A mother tongue first spoken in Stone Age times, on the steppes of central Eurasia 6,500 years ago. It was so...
Belknap Press, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 067466020X. — ISBN13: 978-0674660205 In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative process. For...
Harvard University Press, 2003. — 388 p. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children...
Пер. с англ.: А. Карпухина, О. Куракова, Е. Прозорова. — М.: Языки славянских культур, 2012. — 308 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9551-0522-2. Дерек Бикертон – всемирно известный ученый, прославившийся изучением пиджинов и креольских языков, почетный профессор Гавайского университета. Его открытие, что креольские языки могут создаваться детьми из неструктурированного инпута в течение одного...
Киев: Вища школа, 1981. Монография посвящена вопросам идеологической борьбы в языкознании, в области использования языковых средств и в языковом строительстве. В ней подвергаются критическому анализу идейно-философские основы зарубежных лингвистических теорий: генеративной грамматики Н. Хомского, семиотики, неолингвистики, теории речевых актов, теории «языковых кодов», показана...
М.: Мир, 1981. — 272 с. Американский популяризатор науки описывает один из наиболее интересных экспериментов в современной этологии и лингвистике – преодоление извечного барьера в общении человека с животными. Наряду с поразительными фактами обучения шимпанзе знаково-понятийному языку глухонемых автор излагает взгляды крупных лингвистов на природу языка и историю его развития....
М.: Наука, 1984. — 137 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя последняя книга Б. В. Якушина содержит идеи, разрабатывавшиеся автором на протяжении ряда лет. Автор ставит задачу ответить на вопрос, почему общечеловеческий интерес к проблеме происхождения языка постоянен, излагает в историческом аспекте различные гипотезы о появлении языка, привлекая материалы мифов и легенд. Ученый...
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