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The Extended Mind : The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture / Robert K. Logan.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Logan, Robert K., author.
- Series:
- Toronto studies in semiotics and communication.
- Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Origin.
- Language and languages.
- Language and culture.
- Human evolution.
- Thought and thinking.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Extended Mind, Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture.
- Contents:
- Introduction; Part 1: On the Origin and Evolution of Language; 1. The History of the Study of the Origin of Language; Part 2: The Extended Mind Model; 2. The Evolution of Notated Language; 3. The Extended Mind Model of the Origin of Language; 4. A Grand Unification Theory of Human Thought and Culture; Part 3: Comparison and Synthesis of Other Approaches to the Origin of Language; 5. How Universal Is Universal Grammar? Chomsky's Generative Grammar; 6. Is the Primary Function of Language Social Communication or the Representation of Abstract Thought?; 7. What Are the Mechanisms That Led to Spoken Language?
- 8. Ontogeny and Language; 9. Phylogeny or the Evolutionary History of Language; Part 4: The Synthesis of the Extended Mind Model with Other Approaches; 10. The Synthesis of Five Approaches to the Origin of Language; 11. Overlaps of the Extended Mind Model with the Work of Clark, Jackendoff, and Schumann; Part 5: The Co-evolution of Culture: Language and Altruism and the Emergence of Universal Culture; 12. The Co-evolution of Culture and Language; 13. Altruism and the Origin of Language and Culture; 14. Culture as an Organism and the Emergence of Universal Culture; Epilogue: The Propagating Organization of Language and Culture; References; Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9781442691803
- 1442691808
- 9781442684911
- 1442684917
- OCLC:
- 1004872469
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