In:The Evolution of Human Language: Scenarios, principles, and cultural dynamics
Wolfgang Wildgen
[Advances in Consciousness Research 57] 2004
► pp. v–x
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Published online: 30 June 2004
https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.57.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsxi
1. Introduction1
2. Basic scenarios and forces in the evolution of human language5
3. Expression and appeal in animal and human communication with special consideration of laughter25
4. The evolution of cognitive control in tool-making and tool-use and the emergence of a theory of mind43
5. The evolution of pre-historic art and the transition to writing systems61
6. Symbolic creativity in language, art, and science and the cultural dynamics of symbolic forms93
7. “Fossils” of evolution in the lexicon of HAND and EYE (mainly in German, English and French)137
8. The form of a “protolanguage” and the contours of a theory of language evolution159
9. Symbolic forms, generalized media, and their evolution185
10. Consciousness, linguistic universals, and the methodology of linguistics199
Notes209
References215
Index of proper names229
Subject index233
Index of principles and hypotheses237
