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The Gestural Origin of Language: Perspectives on Deafness

Autor David F. Armstrong, Sherman E. Wilcox
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 mai 2007
In The Gestural Origin of Language, Wilcox and Armstrong use evidence from and about sign languages to explore the origins of language as we know it today. According to their model, it is sign, not spoken languages, that is the original mode of human communication.The authors demonstrate that modern language is derived from practical actions and gestures that were increasingly recognised as having the potential to represent and hence to communicate. In other words, the fundamental ability that allows us to use language is our ability to use pictures of icons, rather than linguistic symbols. Evidence from the human fossil record supports the authors' claim by showing that we were anatomically able to produce gestures and signs before we were able to speak fluently. Although speech evolved later as a secondary linguistic communication device that eventually replaced sign language as the primary mode of communication, speech has never entirely replaced signs and gestures.
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ISBN-13: 9780195163483
ISBN-10: 0195163486
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: 6 halftones, 14 line illustrations
Dimensiuni: 236 x 157 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Perspectives on Deafness

Locul publicării:New York, United States