Darwinism And The Linguistic Image
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Author | : Stephen G. Alter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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"A rich and rewarding account of the often subtle connections that bound the nineteenth-century sciences of language and life." -- British Journal of the History of Science
Author | : August Schleicher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Evolution |
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Download Darwinism Tested by the Science of Language Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Robert C. Berwick |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2017-05-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0262533499 |
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Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it. “A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language.” —New York Review of Books We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language—“the language faculty”—raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished scholars—a computer scientist and a linguist—addresses the enduring question of the evolution of language. Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky explain that until recently the evolutionary question could not be properly posed, because we did not have a clear idea of how to define “language” and therefore what it was that had evolved. But since the Minimalist Program, developed by Chomsky and others, we know the key ingredients of language and can put together an account of the evolution of human language and what distinguishes us from all other animals. Berwick and Chomsky discuss the biolinguistic perspective on language, which views language as a particular object of the biological world; the computational efficiency of language as a system of thought and understanding; the tension between Darwin's idea of gradual change and our contemporary understanding about evolutionary change and language; and evidence from nonhuman animals, in particular vocal learning in songbirds.
Author | : William Dwight Whitney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Comparative linguistics |
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Author | : Sir Frederick Bateman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Evolution |
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Author | : Stephen G. Alter |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 142142911X |
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Linguistics, or the science of language, emerged as an independent field of study in the nineteenth century, amid the religious and scientific ferment of the Victorian era. William Dwight Whitney, one of that period's most eminent language scholars, argued that his field should be classed among the social sciences, thus laying a theoretical foundation for modern sociolinguistics. William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language offers a full-length study of America's pioneer professional linguist, the founder and first president of the American Philological Association and a renowned Orientalist. In recounting Whitney's remarkable career, Stephen G. Alter examines the intricate linguistic debates of that period as well as the politics of establishing language study as a full-fledged science. Whitney's influence, Alter argues, extended to the German Neogrammarian movement and the semiotic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure. This exploration of an early phase of scientific language study provides readers with a unique perspective on Victorian intellectual life as well as on the transatlantic roots of modern linguistic theory.
Author | : Nikolaus Ritt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2004-05-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521826716 |
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Author | : Laura White |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351803611 |
Download The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Though popular opinion would have us see Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There as whimsical, nonsensical, and thoroughly enjoyable stories told mostly for children; contemporary research has shown us there is a vastly greater depth to the stories than would been seen at first glance. Building on the now popular idea amongst Alice enthusiasts, that the Alice books - at heart - were intended for adults as well as children, Laura White takes current research in a new, fascinating direction. During the Victorian era of the book’s original publication, ideas about nature and our relation to nature were changing drastically. The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World argues that Lewis Carroll used the book’s charm, wit, and often puzzling conclusions to counter the emerging tendencies of the time which favored Darwinism and theories of evolution and challenged the then-conventional thinking of the relationship between mankind and nature. Though a scientist and ardent student of nature himself, Carroll used his famously playful language, fantastic worlds and brilliant, often impossible characters to support more the traditional, Christian ideology of the time in which mankind holds absolute sovereignty over animals and nature.
Author | : Ernst Haeckel |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027208778 |
Download Linguistics and Evolutionary Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Contains: The Darwinian Theory and the Science of language (1863) by August Schleicher, translated from the German by Alexander V. W. Bikkers. On the Significance of Language for the Natural History of Man (1865) by August Schleicher, translated from the German by J. Peter Maher. On the Origin of Language (1867) by Wilhelm H. I. Bleek, edited with a preface by Ernst Haeckel, translated from the German by Thomas Davidson.
Author | : Terrence W. Deacon |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1998-04-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393343022 |
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"A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.