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The Symbolic Mind: Apes, Symbols, and the Evolution of Language

A Study of Bonobos and What They May Teach US About Language, Thought, and Evolution - .
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
256 Seiten
Englisch
LAP Lambert Academic Publishingerschienen am20.10.2012
Language presents a specifically problematic but nonetheless central issue for accounts of human evolution. It does not fossilize and there is no agreement on what a precursor would look like. One main issue is the difficulty of studying how symbolic language affects cognition, given that all healthy humans develop language. However, one avenue is ape language research. Cognitive experiments with symbolically competent bonobos, compared with bonobos without competency in human symbolic communication, show that symbols do affect the primate brain. These results provide empirical support for social niche construction theory as the best explanatory framework for language evolution. The research further supports the argument that symbols, rather than grammar, is what theories of language evolution should seek to explain first. The ancient philosophical question of language and thought is also discussed as the research with symbolically competent bonobos provides data that can speaks to what their relationship might be.mehr

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KlappentextLanguage presents a specifically problematic but nonetheless central issue for accounts of human evolution. It does not fossilize and there is no agreement on what a precursor would look like. One main issue is the difficulty of studying how symbolic language affects cognition, given that all healthy humans develop language. However, one avenue is ape language research. Cognitive experiments with symbolically competent bonobos, compared with bonobos without competency in human symbolic communication, show that symbols do affect the primate brain. These results provide empirical support for social niche construction theory as the best explanatory framework for language evolution. The research further supports the argument that symbols, rather than grammar, is what theories of language evolution should seek to explain first. The ancient philosophical question of language and thought is also discussed as the research with symbolically competent bonobos provides data that can speaks to what their relationship might be.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-659-25848-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2012
Erscheinungsdatum20.10.2012
Seiten256 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht357 g
Artikel-Nr.15334746

Autor

Dr. Janni Pedersen earned her doctoral degree from Iowa State University, where she taught courses in philosophy as well as biological and cultural anthropology. Her dissertation research was on symbolically competent bonobos. Originally from Denmark, she is currently assistant professor of Anthropology at Ashford University, San Diego.