The Origin of Language and Consciousness How Social Orders and Communicative Concerns Gave Rise to Speech and Cognitive Abilities /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rozov, Nikolai S. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	XLIX, 361 p. 68 illus. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Series:	World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures,
Subjects:	World politics. Anthropological linguistics. Language and languages. Globalization. Human evolution. Anthropology. Social evolution. Political History. Linguistic Anthropology. Language History. Evolutionary Anthropology. Cultural Evolution.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30630-3
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Structuring the conceptual field: Typologies, paradigms, and results
Chapter 2. Basic concepts and principles of cognitive evolution
Chapter 3. Explanatory fundamentals: From niches to interactive rituals
Chapter 4. Self-domestication and normativity: Conditions for the breakthrough to speech
Chapter 5. Crossing the "language Rubicon": From signal multiplication to distinguishing protowords
Chapter 6. The childhood of language: Rephrasing rituals and reactive protophrases
Chapter 7. "Managing imagination" of interlocutors and the phases of protolanguage development
Chapter 8. The need for syntax and illusion of the consciousness totality
Chapter 9. Bridging the Pre-language gap
Chapter 10. Linguistic complexity and simplicity: The socioevolutionary roots
Chapter 11. The nature of the affinity of modern languages
Chapter 12. Conclusion.

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