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Autore: |
Håkansson Gisela
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Titolo: |
Communication in humans and other animals / / Gisela Håkansson, Jennie Westander
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Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | x, 242 p |
Disciplina: | 302.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Oral communication |
Visual communication | |
Human-animal communication | |
Language acquisition | |
Altri autori: |
WestanderJennie
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Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Communication in Humans and Other Animals -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Introducing communicative behaviour -- 1.1.1 Social life and the need of communication -- 1.1.2 Linguistic perspectives on communication and language -- 1.1.3 Biological perspectives on communication -- 1.1.4 Comparing linguistic and biological perspectives -- 1.2 Major themes in comparisons between human and animal communication -- 1.2.1 Hockett's design features -- 1.2.2 Methodology and research questions -- 1.2.3 Do animals use displament? -- 1.2.4 Do animals have combinatory principles? -- 1.2.5 Do animal systems have arbitrary content/form relations? Do animals learn the system? -- 1.2.6 How did language evolve? -- 1.3 Parent - offspring communication and cooperative breeding -- 1.4 Summary -- 1.5 Suggested readings -- 2. Overview of biological signal systems -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Research methods and observational techniques -- 2.2.1 Playback as a method for investigating communication -- 2.2.2 Advances in technology influence the methods -- 2.3 Acoustic communication -- 2.3.1 When and where? -- 2.3.2 How? Production and perception -- 2.3.3 Echolocation and other sounds in dolphins and whales -- 2.4 Visual communication -- 2.4.1 When and where? -- 2.4.2 How? Visual capacities -- 2.4.3 Colour patterns -- 2.4.4 Body postures and facial expressions -- 2.5 Tactile communication -- 2.5.1 When and where? -- 2.5.2 How? Skin, whiskers and sidelines -- 2.6 Indirect tactile signals - the seismic signal system -- 2.7 Chemical communication -- 2.7.1 When and where? -- 2.7.2 How? -- 2.7.3 The olfactory system -- 2.8 Electrical communication -- 2.9 The multimodal honeybee - acoustic, visual, chemical, seismic communication -- 2.10 Summary -- 2.11 Suggested readings. |
3. Human language - its use and learning -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Social life and the languages of the world -- 3.1.2 Observation techniques -- 3.1.3 Language functions -- 3.2 The child's discovery of language - the first year of life -- 3.2.1 Parent - infant interaction -- 3.2.2 The "little universalist" - early perception of speech sounds -- 3.2.3 Early vocalization - babbling -- 3.3 Language in the toddler -- 3.3.1 Mapping forms to meanings -- 3.3.2 Cultural differences reflected in children's language -- 3.3.3 Words and world-views - what do you call your cousin? -- 3.3.4 But what about grammar? -- 3.3.5 Recursion -- 3.4 When problems arise - Specific Language Impairment -- 3.5 Second language acquisition - organizing language once again -- 3.6 Sign language - another modality -- 3.7 Summary -- 3.8 Suggested readings -- 4. Human nonverbal communication -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Research methods and observation techniques -- 4.2 Functions - what do we use nonverbal communication for? -- 4.2.1 Permanent versus temporary expressions -- 4.2.2 Synchronising in sympathy -- 4.3 Acoustic communication -- 4.3.1 Extralinguistic expressions - laughters and cries -- 4.3.2 Paralinguistic expressions - with speech -- 4.4 Visual communication -- 4.4.1 Body postures -- 4.4.2 Hand movements - pointing -- 4.4.3 Other hand gestures -- 4.4.4 Head and face -- 4.4.5 Eyes and gaze -- 4.4.6 Complexion -- 4.5 Tactile communication -- 4.6 Chemical communication -- 4.7 A model for analyzing gestures - The Ekman and Friesen model -- 4.8 Where verbal and non-verbal communication meet: Speech-related gestures -- 4.8.1 The McNeill model -- 4.8.2 Using knowledge of nonverbal expressions in verbal descriptions -- 4.9 When production is not automatized -- 4.10 Summary -- 4.11 Suggested readings -- 5. Our closest relatives - nonhuman primates. | |
5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 The primate family -- 5.1.2 Social life -- 5.1.3 Studying nonhuman primates - how it all began -- 5.1.4 Observation techniques -- 5.2 Communicative functions -- 5.2.1 The referential function - first reported in vervet monkeys -- 5.2.2 The social function - with focus on synchronization of behaviour -- 5.3 Acoustic communication -- 5.3.1 Some vocalizations and their use -- 5.3.2 Vocal learning in nonhuman primates -- 5.3.3 Structural aspects of vocalizations - do nonhuman primates have syntax? -- 5.4 Visual communication -- 5.4.1 Body postures -- 5.4.2 Hand and arm gestures -- 5.4.3 Face and gaze -- 5.5 Tactile communication - a lot of grooming -- 5.6 Chemical communication -- 5.7 Cultural/dialectal differences - results of social learning -- 5.8 Teaching human language to nonhuman primates -- 5.8.1 Speech -- 5.8.2 Sign language -- 5.8.3 Plastic chips -- 5.8.4 Computers and lexigrams -- 5.9 Discussion - primary versus secondary communication in nonhuman primates -- 5.9.1 Primary communication - data base -- 5.9.2 Primary communication - functions and structures -- 5.9.3 Secondary communication - human language as a second variety -- 5.10 Summary -- 5.11 Suggested readings -- 6. Man's best friend - the dog -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.1.1 The Canine class -- 6.1.2 Social life of wolves and dogs -- 6.1.3 Observation techniques -- 6.2 Functions of Canine communication -- 6.2.1 Social functions -- 6.2.2 Studies of the referential function -- 6.3 Acoustic communication -- 6.3.1 Barking -- 6.3.2 Growling -- 6.3.3 Chorus howling in wolves -- 6.4 Visual communication -- 6.4.1 Head and face -- 6.4.2 Tail -- 6.5 Tactile communication -- 6.6 Chemical communication -- 6.7 Developmental patterns in intra-specific communication -- 6.8 The dog in the human family - learning to communicate with another species. | |
6.8.1 Dogs' understanding of humans -- 6.8.2 Humans' understanding of dogs -- 6.8.3 Not interactional synchrony - but accommodation -- 6.9 Summary -- 6.10 Suggested readings -- 7. Communication in birds -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.1.1 The Aves class -- 7.1.2 Social life of birds -- 7.1.3 Observation techniques -- 7.2 Functions - why do birds communicate? -- 7.2.1 Alignment of songs - counter-singing and duetting -- 7.2.2 Referential function in birds - the calls of the domestic fowl -- 7.3 Acoustic communication -- 7.3.1 Variation across and within species -- 7.3.2 Structural aspects of song -- 7.4 Learning how to sing -- 7.4.1 Sensitive phases and developmental stages -- 7.4.2 Dialectal differences -- 7.5 Visual communication -- 7.5.1 Talking with the tail -- 7.6 Chemical communication -- 7.7 Birds and humans -- 7.7.1 Teaching language to birds -- 7.8 Summary -- 7.9 Suggested readings -- 8. Discussion and outlook - why language? -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.1.1 Social life and communication in humans and animals -- 8.2 What is so special about language? Revisiting Hockett's predictions -- 8.3 Why and how did language evolve? -- 8.3.1 Why and when did it happen? -- 8.3.2 Are there any parallel changes in human physiology? -- 8.3.3 Is language a result of cooperative breeding? -- 8.4 Learning intraspecific communication - not only for humans -- 8.4.1 Child language and animal communication -- 8.5 Can language be taught to nonhumans? -- 8.6 Summary -- 8.7 Suggested readings -- Glossary -- References -- Index. | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and nonverbal communication, communication in nonhuman primates, in dogs and in birds. Research questions and findings from different perspectives are summarized and integrated to show students similarities and differences in the rich diversity of communicative behaviours. A core topic is how young individuals proceed from not being able to communicate to reaching a state of competent communicators, and the role of adults in this developmental process. Evolutionary aspects are also taken into consideration, and ideas about the evolution of human language are examined. The cross-disciplinary nature of the book makes it useful for courses in linguistics, biology, sociology and psychology, but it is also valuable reading for anyone interested in understanding communicative behaviour. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Communication in humans and other animals ![]() |
ISBN: | 90-272-7201-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910829126203321 |
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