Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language
Author:   Jean-Louis Dessalles (, Associate Professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris) ,  James Grieve (Australian National University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   402
Publication Date:   02 July 2009
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Author:   Jean-Louis Dessalles (, Associate Professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris) ,  James Grieve (Australian National University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.598kg
ISBN:  

9780199563463


ISBN 10:   0199563462
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   02 July 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I The Place of Language in Human Evolutionary History 1: Animal and Human Communication 2: Culture, Languages, and Language 3: The Biological Roots of Language 4: Misapprehensions about the Origins of Language 5: Language as an Evolutionary Curiosity 6: The Local Optimality of Language Part II The Functional Anatomy of Speech 7: Putting Sounds Together 8: Protolanguage 9: The Mechanics of Syntax 10: Syntax and Meaning 11: The Structure of Meanings 12: The Emergence of Meaning Part III The Ethology of Language 13: Conversation Behaviour 14: Language as Information 15: The Birth of Argumentation 16: Language as an Evolutionary Paradox 17: The Political Origins of Language 18: Epilogue Reference Index

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Jean-Louis Dessalles is Associate Professor at Telecom ParisTech, where he organized the Third International Conference on the Evolution of Language in 2000. He is author of L'ordinateur génétique, Aux Origines du langage and La pertinence et ses origines, all published by Hermès-Science. He has published numerous articles in English and French on cognitive science, communication, and language evolution. ; James Grieve is an Emeritus Reader at The Australian National University, Canberra. His major translations include works on autism, language and linguistics, myrmecology, Lacour-Gayet's Histoire de l'Australie, books for children, and two parts of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. He has published a Dictionary of Contemporary French Connectors and two novels for Young Adults .

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