Origins of Human Communication

Name: Origins of Human Communication
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ISBN: 9780262515207

ISBN-10: 0262515202

ISBN-13: 9780262515207

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael Tomasello

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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/13/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.03" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 0.990

Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.



Series Foreword


Preface and Acknowledgments



A Focus on Infrastructure



Primate Intentional Communication



Vocal Displays



Gestural Signals



Communication with Humans



Intentionality in Ape Communication



Conclusion



Human Cooperative Communication



Pointing and Pantomiming



The Cooperation Model



Communicative Conventions



Conclusion



Ontogenetic Origins



Infant Pointing



Sources of Infant Pointing



Early Pantomiming



Shared Intentionality and Early Language



Conclusion



Phylogenetic Origins



The Emergence of Collaboration



The Emergence of Cooperative Communication



The Emergence of Conventional Communication



Conclusion



The Grammatical Dimension



The Grammar of Requesting



The Grammar of Informing



The Grammar of Sharing and Narrative



The Conventionalization of Linguistic Constructions



Conclusion



From Ape Gestures to Human Language



Summary of the Argument



Hypotheses and Problems



Language as Shared Intentionality


References


Author Index


Subject Index