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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820564403321

Autore

McNeill David, Dr

Titolo

How language began : gesture and speech in human evolution / / David McNeill [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-316-08982-7

1-139-56454-4

1-283-61086-8

1-139-55100-0

9786613923318

1-139-10866-2

1-139-55596-0

1-139-54975-8

1-139-55471-9

1-139-55225-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Approaches to the evolution of language

Disciplina

401

Soggetti

Language and languages - Origin

Speech and gesture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Gesture and the origin of language -- What evolved (in part): The Growth Point -- How it evolved (in part): Mead's Loop -- Effects of Mead's Loop -- Ontogenesis in evolution, evolution in ontogenesis -- Alternatives, their limits, and the science base of the growth point.

Sommario/riassunto

Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess. Nearly all



theorizing about the origins of language either ignores gesture, views it as an add-on or supposes that language began in gesture and was later replaced by speech. David McNeill challenges the popular 'gesture-first' theory that language first emerged in a gesture-only form and proposes a groundbreaking theory of the evolution of language which explains how speech and gesture became unified.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910160830303321

Autore

Kafka Franz

Titolo

Das Urteil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : Otbebookpublishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

9783956763588

3956763580

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (15 p.)

Collana

Classics To Go

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Die Erzählung hat den Charakter einer Novelle und handelt von einem Vater-Sohn-Konflikt. Georg Bendemann, Sohn eines Kaufmanns, verlobt und kurz vor der Heirat stehend, korrespondiert brieflich mit seinem - aus seiner Sicht - glücklosen Freund in Petersburg. Um diesen zu schonen, verschweigt Georg in seinen Briefen viel von seinem eigenen erfolgreichen Leben. Doch nach langem Überlegen und eifrigem Zureden von Seiten seiner zukünftigen Frau entschließt er sich, ihm doch von seiner bevorstehenden Hochzeit zu erzählen. Als Georg mit dem Brief zu seinem Vater geht, kommt es zu einem Disput. Während des Streits erfährt der Sohn, dass sein Vater angeblich schon lange mit dem Petersburger Freund in Verbindung stehe und diesen längst über alles unterrichtet habe. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)