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Author:   Daniel Dor (Senior Lecturer in Communication, Senior Lecturer in Communication, Tel Aviv University) ,  Chris Knight ,  Jerome Lewis (Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   19
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.838kg
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9780199665327

ISBN 10:   019966532
Pages:   454
Publication Date:   26 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Daniel Dor, Chris Knight, and Jerome Lewis: Introduction: A social perspective on how language beganPART 1 Theoretical Foundations 2: Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka: Why we need to move from gene-culture co-evolution to culturally-driven co-evolution 3: Chris Sinha: Niche construction and semiosis: Biocultural and social dynamics 4: Camilla Power: Signal evolution and the social brain 5: Sverker Johansson: How can a social theory of language evolution be grounded in evidence?PART 2 Language as a Collective Object 6: Adam Kendon: The 'poly-modalic' nature of utterances and its relevance for inquiring into language origins 7: Jerome Lewis: BaYaka Pygmy multi-modal and mimetic communication traditions 8: Nick J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell: Language presupposes an enchronic infrastructure for social interaction 9: Daniel Dor: The instruction of imagination: Language and its evolution as a communication technologyPART 3 Apes and People, Past and Present 10: Simone Pika: Chimpanzee grooming gestures and sounds: What might they tell us about how language evolved? 11: Zanna Clay and Klaus Zuberbühler: Vocal communication and social awareness in chimpanzees and bonobos 12: Charles Whitehead: Why humans and not apes: The social preconditions for the emergence of language 13: Emily Wyman: Language and collective fiction: From children's pretence to social institutions 14: Dan Dediu and Stephen C. Levinson: The time frame of the emergence of modern language and its implications 15: Camilla Power: The evolution of ritual as a process of sexual selection 16: Ian Watts: The red thread: Pigment use and the evolution of collective ritual 17: Chris Knight: Language and symbolic culture: An outcome of hunter-gatherer reverse dominancePART 4 The Social Origins of Language 18: Jordan Zlatev: The co-evolution of human intersubjectivity, morality, and language 19: Ehud Lamm: Forever united: The co-evolution of language and normativity 20: Jean-Louis Dessalles: Why talk? 21: Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis: Vocal deception, laughter, and the linguistic significance of reverse dominancePART 5 The Journey Thereafter 22: Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka: Memory, imagination, and the evolution of modern language 23: Nick J. Enfield: Transmission biases in the cultural evolution of language: Towards an explanatory framework 24: Luc Steels: Breaking down false barriers to understanding

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Daniel Dor has a PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University, and is Senior Lecturer in Communication at Tel Aviv University. His main interest lies in the development of a theory of language as a communication technology. Together with Eva Jablonka, he has written extensively on the evolution of language. In a different (but related) domain, Dor has published books and articles on the role of the media, and its language, in the construction of political hegemony. His Intifada Hits the Headlines was chosen as book of the year 2004 in communication by Choice Magazine. Chris Knight was for many years Professor of Anthropology at the University of East London, although he is now retired. Best known for his 1991 book, Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture, he co-founded the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG) series of international conferences and has published widely on the evolutionary emergence of language and symbolic culture. Jerome Lewis lectures in Social Anthropology at University College London and co-directs the Hunter-Gatherer Resilience Project, the Extreme Citizen Science Research Group and UCL's Environment Institute. His research focuses on Pygmy hunter-gatherers and former hunter-gatherers in Central Africa. Current research focuses on communication and cultural transmission in egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies.

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