Pragmatics, prosody, and evolution: Language is more than a symbolic system
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (2):136-137 (2005)
| Abstract | The model presented in the target article is biased towards a cognitive-symbolic understanding of language, thus ignoring its other important aspects. Possible relationships of this cognitive-symbolic subsystem to pragmatics and prosody of language are discussed in the first part of the commentary. In the second part, the issue of a purely social versus biological mechanisms for transition from protolanguage to properly language is considered. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,875 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesMarco Mirolli & Domenico Parisi (2009). Language as a Cognitive Tool. Minds and Machines 19 (4):517-528.
Marilee Monnot, Robert Foley & Elliott Ross (2004). Affective Prosody: Whence Motherese. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (4):518-519.
Robyn Carston (2002). Linguistic Meaning, Communicated Meaning and Cognitive Pragmatics. Mind and Language 17 (1&2):127–148.
Andreas Rogalewski, Caterina Breitenstein, Agnes Floel & Stefan Knecht (2004). Prosody as an Intermediary Evolutionary Stage Between a Manual Communication System and a Fully Developed Language Faculty. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (4):521-522.
Emmanuel Gilissen (2004). Aspects of Human Language: Where Motherese? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (4):514-514.
María José Frápolli (ed.) (2007). Saying, Meaning and Referring: Essays on François Recanati's Philosophy of Language. Palgrave Macmillan.
Robbins Burling (2004). Prosody Does Not Equal Language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (4):509-509.
Angelo Cangelosi, Alberto Greco & Stevan Harnad (2002). Symbol Grounding and the Symbolic Theft Hypothesis. In A. Cangelosi & D. Parisi (eds.), Simulating the Evolution of Language. Springer-Verlag.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads4 ( #180,507 of 556,908 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #64,931 of 556,908 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
