This series provides a forum for rationally argued, solidly based work on the origins and evolution of language which combines scholarship with readability.
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- The evolution of language
- Edited by Kathleen R. Gibson and Maggie Tallerman
- Language and Enlightenment
- The Transition to Language - Paperback - Alison Wray - Oxford University Press
Could we attain self-consciousness and construct our civilization without language? Such were the questions at the basis of eighteenth-century debates on the joint evolution of language, mind, and culture.
Language and Enlightenment highlights the importance of language in the social theory, epistemology, and aesthetics of the Enlightenment. While focusing on the Berlin Academy under Frederick the Great, Avi Lifschitz situates the Berlin debates within a larger temporal and geographical framework. He argues that awareness of the historicity and linguistic rootedness of all forms of life was a mainstream Enlightenment notion rather than a feature of the so-called 'Counter-Enlightenment'. Enlightenment authors of different persuasions investigated whether speechless human beings could have developed their language and society on their own.
The evolution of language
Such inquiries usually pondered the difficult shift from natural signs like cries and gestures to the artificial, articulate words of human language. This transition from nature to artifice was mirrored in other domains of inquiry, such as the origins of social relations, inequality, the arts, and the sciences. By examining a wide variety of authors - Leibniz, Wolff, Condillac, Rousseau, Michaelis, and Herder, among others - Language and Enlightenment emphasises the open and malleable character of the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters.
The language debates demonstrate that German theories of culture and language were not merely a rejection of French ideas.
Edited by Kathleen R. Gibson and Maggie Tallerman
New notions of the genius of language and its role in cognition were constructed through a complex interaction with cross-European currents, especially via the prize contests at the Berlin Academy. The mutual emergence of language, mind, and society: Symbolic cognition from Leibniz to the s: The evolution and genius of language: Michaelis on language and vowel points: A point of convergence and new departures: Language and cultural identity: Tackling the naturalistic conundrum: Conclusion and a glimpse into the future.
- The Transition to Language.
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He is editor of Engaging with Rousseau and co-editor of Epicurus in the Enlightenment Environment, Population, and Social Context Constraints on Communities with Indigenous Sign Languages: Determining the Shape of Language Linguistic Adaptation Without Linguistic Constraints: Christiansen and Michelle R. Alison Wray gained her BA and D. She has worked in departments of music, linguistics, and communication, and her research focuses on three major areas: She has published papers and chapters on all three areas, and her books include: Christiansen Cornell University Michael C.
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