Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language
Autor Dean Falken Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 mar 2009
Scientists
have
long
theorized
that
abstract,
symbolic
thinking
evolved
to
help
humans
negotiate
such
classically
male
activities
as
hunting,
tool
making,
and
warfare,
and
eventually
developed
into
spoken
language.
InFinding
Our
Tongues,
Dean
Falk
overturns
this
established
idea,
offering
a
daring
new
theory
that
springs
from
a
simple
observation:
parents
all
over
the
world,
in
all
cultures,
talk
to
infants
by
using
baby
talk
or
“Motherese.”
Falk
shows
how
Motherese
developed
as
a
way
of
reassuring
babies
when
mothers
had
to
put
them
down
in
order
to
do
work.
The
melodic
vocalizations
of
early
Motherese
not
only
provided
the
basis
of
language
but
also
contributed
to
the
growth
of
music
and
art.
Combining
cutting-edge
neuroscience
with
classic
anthropology,
Falk
offers
a
potent
challenge
to
conventional
wisdom
about
the
emergence
of
human
language.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465002191
ISBN-10: 0465002196
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 165 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0465002196
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 165 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
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Notă biografică
Dean
Falkis
Hale
G.
Smith
Professor
of
Anthropology
at
Florida
State
University.
She
is
the
author
ofBraindanceandPrimate
Diversity,
and
co-author
ofThe
Face
in
the
Mirror.
Her
“putting
the
baby
down”
theory,
published
inBehavioral
and
Brain
Sciences,
has
been
featured
in
theNew
York
Times,Washington
Post,Scientific
American,New
Scientist,National
Geographic,
andNewsweek.
She
lives
in
Tallahassee,
Florida,
and
Santa
Fe,
New
Mexico.
Recenzii
Franz
de
Waal,
author
ofOur
Inner
Ape
“That language began with melodious vocal exchanges between mother and offspring is a most attractive idea. It connects language with love, reassurance, and early bodily rhythms. Instead of the traditional focus on words and grammar, Dean Falk's refreshing new theory has the added bonus of injecting music, another human universal, into the language debate.”
Publishers Weekly
“Readers interested in language acquisition may find Falk's hypothesis thought provoking.”
Francisco Aboitiz PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
“Finding Our Tonguesis an entertaining book, which can be read by both specialists and non-specialists alike. Dean Falk convincingly argues in favor of the universality of motherese in human cultures, and proposes the bold hypothesis that the acquisition of baby talk in early humans represented a key development in language origins. This book will surely stimulate debate about deep and challenging questions on human nature.”
Psychology Today
“Drawing on an impressive array of data, from observations of chimpanzees to neuroimaging, Falk, an anthropologist, suggests that the mother-child relationship trained our ancestors for language, while also contributing to the development of music and art.”
“That language began with melodious vocal exchanges between mother and offspring is a most attractive idea. It connects language with love, reassurance, and early bodily rhythms. Instead of the traditional focus on words and grammar, Dean Falk's refreshing new theory has the added bonus of injecting music, another human universal, into the language debate.”
Publishers Weekly
“Readers interested in language acquisition may find Falk's hypothesis thought provoking.”
Francisco Aboitiz PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
“Finding Our Tonguesis an entertaining book, which can be read by both specialists and non-specialists alike. Dean Falk convincingly argues in favor of the universality of motherese in human cultures, and proposes the bold hypothesis that the acquisition of baby talk in early humans represented a key development in language origins. This book will surely stimulate debate about deep and challenging questions on human nature.”
Psychology Today
“Drawing on an impressive array of data, from observations of chimpanzees to neuroimaging, Falk, an anthropologist, suggests that the mother-child relationship trained our ancestors for language, while also contributing to the development of music and art.”
New Scientist
“Falk makes a strong case that communication between mothers and babies is a linguistic crucible.”
The Nation
“The origin of language is a hot topic – contentious and impossible to prove, but hot. Falk points out that anthropologists have a blind spot where women and babies are concerned: it's always assumed that the hunters and their toolmaking technologies drive evolution, but in the case of language the childcare hypothesis is more grounded in data than others…. The drab thought of our ancestors – hunger on the brain – hacking away at a deinotherium just doesn't carry the same frisson as Falk's theory, wherein motherese not only stimulates language but theory of mind – the recognition of intention, of personhood, in someone else.”
Booklist
“[A] provocative hypothesis…. A conjecture certain to stir debate.”
Philadelphia Weekly
“Dean Falk'sFinding Our Tonguesis set to make waves in the anthropological/ linguistic/ scientific community (watch out!) with a new theory of why we speak the way we do.... Prediction: The word ‘Motherese' will move into popular parlance.”
The Boston Globe
“Original and full of implication…. Path-breaking.”