ISBN:
9789027287311
,
9027287317
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (239 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Advances in interaction studies (AIS) 1
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Primate communication and human language
DDC:
302.22
Keywords:
Oral communication
;
Visual communication
;
Visual communication
;
Visuell kommunikation
;
Verbal kommunikation ; psykologiska aspekter
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Communication Studies
;
Oral communication
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from disciplines surrounding language. The editors of the present book have gathered researchers from various fields, with the common objective of taking as seriously as possible the search for continuities from non-human primate vocal and gestural communication systems to human speech and language, in a multidi
Abstract:
pt. 1. Primate vocal communication : new findings about its complexity, adaptability and control -- pt. 2. Neurophysiological, behavioural and ontogenetic data on the evolution of communicative orofacial and manual gestures -- pt. 3. Emergence and development of speech, gestures and language.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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