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The origin of language and consciousness : how social orders and communicative concerns gave rise to speech and cognitive abilities / Nikolai S. Rozov.
Rozov, Nikolai S. author.
2023
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Title
The origin of language and consciousness : how social orders and communicative concerns gave rise to speech and cognitive abilities / Nikolai S. Rozov.
Author
Rozov, Nikolai S. author.
ISBN
9783031306303 (electronic bk.)
3031306309 (electronic bk.)
9783031306297
3031306295
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30630-3
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Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xlix, 361 pages) : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-031-30630-3 doi
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P37
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.44
Summary
This book presents an evolutionary theory of the origin and step-by-step development of linguistic structures and cognitive abilities from the early stages of anthropogenesis to the Upper Paleolithic. Emphasizing the social nature of the human mind and using an extended version of C.Hempel's explanatory logic, the author proves that language and consciousness emerged and evolved through the daily efforts of our ancestors to overcome mutual misunderstandings in increasingly complex social orders with increasing tasks on memory, thinking, and normative regulation of behavior, with the addition of new and new communicative concerns. The book addresses questions such as the following: What unique social conditions led to the emergence of the first protosyllables and protowords? What steps enabled the crossing of the "linguistic Rubicon" (between animal communication and human speech)? Why were syllables and phonemes needed? How did our ancestors overcome the difficulties of misunderstanding? How, when, and why did ancient people learn to speak in turns? Why did they begin to talk about past and distant events? What is consciousness and how did it evolve along with language? How many original languages were there and why are there roughly 200 philas (language macrofamilies)? How and why did the number of languages and the degree of their complexity change in pre-written history? Did the Romance languages really evolve from Latin? Accordingly, the book will appeal to scholars in various disciplines who are interested in a better understanding of the cognitive aspects of anthropogenesis and the ancient origins of language and consciousness.
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World-systems evolution and global futures, 2522-0993
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Chapter 1. Structuring the conceptual field: Typologies, paradigms, and results
Chapter 2. Basic concepts and principles of cognitive evolution
Chapter 3. Explanatory fundamentals: From niches to interactive rituals
Chapter 4. Self-domestication and normativity: Conditions for the breakthrough to speech
Chapter 5. Crossing the "language Rubicon": From signal multiplication to distinguishing protowords
Chapter 6. The childhood of language: Rephrasing rituals and reactive protophrases
Chapter 7. "Managing imagination" of interlocutors and the phases of protolanguage development
Chapter 8. The need for syntax and illusion of the consciousness totality
Chapter 9. Bridging the Pre-language gap
Chapter 10. Linguistic complexity and simplicity: The socioevolutionary roots
Chapter 11. The nature of the affinity of modern languages
Chapter 12. Conclusion.

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