The cradle of language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Disciplina: 409.6
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Origin; Historical linguistics - Africa; Anthropological linguistics - Africa; Sociolinguistics - Africa
• Soggetto geografico: Africa Languages
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BothaRudolf P KnightChris <1942->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; List of plates; List of maps; List of abbreviations; Notes on the contributors; 1. Introduction: perspectives on the evolution of language in Africa; 2. Earliest personal ornaments and their significance for the origin of language debate; 3. Reading the artifacts: gleaning language skills from the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa; 4. Red ochre, body painting, and language: interpreting the Blombos ochre; 5. Theoretical underpinnings of inferences about language evolution: the syntax used at Blombos Cave ; 6. Fossil cues to the evolution of speech7. Evidence against a genetic-based revolution in language 50,000 years ago; 8. A "language-free" explanation for differences between the European Middle and Upper Paleolithic Record; 9. Diversity in languages, genes, and the language faculty; 10. How varied typologically are the languages of Africa?; 11. What click languages can and can't tell us about language origins; 12. Social origins: sharing, exchange, kinship; 13. As well as words: Congo Pygmy hunting, mimicry, and play ; 14. Sexual selection models for the emergence of symbolic communication: why they should be reversed15. Language, ochre, and the rule of law; References; Index; Contents: The Prehistory of Language
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Internationally renowned scholars address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine the ways it has been interpreted. - ;This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Scholars from around the world address the fossil, genetic, and archaeologica
• Titolo autorizzato: The cradle of language
• ISBN: 1-282-26861-9; 9786612268618; 0-19-156767-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454862503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in the evolution of language ; ; 12.