The Gestural Origin of LanguageOxford University Press, 2007 M04 19 - 168 páginas In The Gestural Origin of Language, Sherman Wilcox and David Armstrong use evidence from and about sign languages to explore the origins of language as we know it today. According to their model, it is sign, not spoken languages, that is the original mode of human communication. The authors demonstrate that modern language is derived from practical actions and gestures that were increasingly recognized as having the potential to represent, and hence to communicate. In other words, the fundamental ability that allows us to use language is our ability to use pictures or icons, rather than linguistic symbols. Evidence from the human fossil record supports the authors' claim by showing that we were anatomically able to produce gestures and signs before we were able to speak fluently. Although speech evolved later as a secondary linguistic communication device that eventually replaced sign language as the primary mode of communication, speech has never entirely replaced signs and gestures. As the first comprehensive attempt to trace the origin of grammar to gesture, this volume will be an invaluable resource for students and professionals in psychology, linguistics, and philosophy. |
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Vision to Voice | 3 |
Sign and the Evolution of Language | 5 |
Paleontological and Primatological Evidence for Gestural Origins | 18 |
3 Gesture Sign and Speech | 33 |
The Ritualization of Language | 48 |
5 Conceptual Spaces and Embodied Actions | 77 |
6 The GestureLanguage Interface | 102 |
7 Invention of Visual Languages | 115 |
A Vision of Unity | 131 |
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The Gestural Origin of Language David F. Armstrong,Sherman E. Wilcox,Sherman Wilcox Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
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