Language and human nature : toward a grammar of interaction and discourse / Harvey B. Sarles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarles, Harvey B.

Series:

Studies in semiotics ; v. 13.

Standardized Title:

After metaphysics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages.

Animal communication.

Human behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1985], c1977.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Language and Human Nature was first published in 1977 as After Metaphysics: Toward a Grammar of Interaction and Discourse and was reissued under the present title in 1985. Language, in Western thought, is the major metaphor for all that we consider truly and uniquely human. It is what separates us from other species and makes human society possible. Language has been taken to be an aspect of the mind -- the seat of logic, rationality, and objectivity; study of language has focused on its formal aspects -- structure and grammar. In recent years, language has come to seem an independent object,

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface (1985); Preface (1977); Introduction; I: (1) On the Problem: The Origin of Language; II: (2) Could a Non-H?; II: (3) The Study of Language and Communication across Species; II: (4) Language and Communication II: The View from '74; II: (5) Toward a Dynamic Linguistics; III: (6) A Phenomenology of Normative Thinking; IV: (7) The Study of Intelligibility; IV: (8) Language Perception and Breaking Context; V: (9) An Examination of the Question-Response System in Language; V: (10) On Human Grammar; V: (11) Toward an Anthropology of Development

VI: (12) Facial Expression and Body MovementVI: (13) The Dynamics of Facial Expression; VI: (14) Around the Cartesian Impasse; Notes; Bibliographical References; Index

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: After metaphysics. Lisse : Peter de Ridder Press, 1977. (Studies in semiotics ; v. 13). With new introd.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5566-9

OCLC:

182732686