Michael Pleyer (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun), Stefan Hartmann (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf)

Cognitive Linguistics and Language Evolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Element gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art of language evolution research and discusses how cognitive linguistics and research on the evolution of language can cross-fertilise each other. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Produktdetails

• Elements in Cognitive Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 154g
• ISBN-13: 9781009384988
• ISBN-10: 1009384988
• Artikelnr.: 69920017

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Comparing the 'design features' of language and animal communication
3. Signing apes and talking birds: language-trained animals
4. Cooperation and communication: the joint attention hypothesis
5. Language evolution in the lab
6. Real-world language dynamics: what language emergence and change reveal about evolution
7. A usage-based perspective on the evolution of language
References.