کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7298305 1474915 2016 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Puzzles and mysteries in the origins of language
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
پازل و رمز و راز در ریشه های زبان
کلمات کلیدی
تکامل زبان، اسماعیل، فرهنگ نمادین، حقیقت، فریب، هزینه سیگنالینگ،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
چکیده انگلیسی
Language evolved in no species other than humans, suggesting a deep-going obstacle to its evolution. Could it be that language simply cannot evolve in a Darwinian world? Reviewing the insights of Noam Chomsky, Amotz Zahavi and Dan Sperber, this article shows how and why each apparently depicts language's emergence as theoretically impossible. Chomsky shuns evolutionary arguments, asserting simply that language was instantaneously installed. Zahavi argues that language entails reliance on low cost conventional signals whose evolutionary emergence would contradict basic Darwinian theory. Sperber argues that a symbolic expression is, literally, a falsehood, adding to the difficulty of explaining how - in a Darwinan world - systematic reliance on language could ever have evolved. It is concluded that language exists, but for reasons which no currently accepted theoretical paradigm can explain.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Language & Communication - Volume 50, September 2016, Pages 12-21
نویسندگان
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