Zywiczynski Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Evolution of Language: Towards Gestural Hypotheses (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the scope and development of the science of language evolution - a newly emergent field that investigates the origin of language. The book is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in science and presents the problems of language origins together with introductory information on such topics as the theory of evolution, elements of linguistic theory, the neural infrastructure of language or the signalling theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783631793947
• Artikelnr.: 63025652

Autorenporträt

Przemyslaw Zywiczynski is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland.



Slawomir Wacewicz is an Assistant Professor at the same department.

The authors are the founders of NCU's Center for Language Evolution Studies (CLES).

Inhaltsangabe

Language origins - Language evolution - Evolutionism - History of linguistics - History of ideas - History of science - Glottogony - Glossogeny - Darwinism - Neo-Darwinian synthesis - Biological foundations of language