Language Communication And Human Behavior

Author : Brent D. Ruben
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 : 9780205267699
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication and Human Behavior written by Brent D. Ruben and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at human communication as a fundamental life process from the level of individual to organizations and society. Fourteen chapters cover: definitions and theories, the development of communication study, basic function, message reception and interpretation, verbal and nonverbal c

Author : Peter Hagoort
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262042630
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Language written by Peter Hagoort and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization. Language is not only one of the most complex cognitive functions that we command, it is also the aspect of the mind that makes us uniquely human. Research suggests that the human brain exhibits a language readiness not found in the brains of other species. This volume brings together contributions from a range of fields to examine humans' language capacity from multiple perspectives, analyzing it at genetic, neurobiological, psychological, and linguistic levels. In recent decades, advances in computational modeling, neuroimaging, and genetic sequencing have made possible new approaches to the study of language, and the contributors draw on these developments. The book examines cognitive architectures, investigating the functional organization of the major language skills; learning and development trajectories, summarizing the current understanding of the steps and neurocognitive mechanisms in language processing; evolutionary and other preconditions for communication by means of natural language; computational tools for modeling language; cognitive neuroscientific methods that allow observations of the human brain in action, including fMRI, EEG/MEG, and others; the neural infrastructure of language capacity; the genome's role in building and maintaining the language-ready brain; and insights from studying such language-relevant behaviors in nonhuman animals as birdsong and primate vocalization. Section editors Christian F. Beckmann, Carel ten Cate, Simon E. Fisher, Peter Hagoort, Evan Kidd, Stephen C. Levinson, James M. McQueen, Antje S. Meyer, David Poeppel, Caroline F. Rowland, Constance Scharff, Ivan Toni, Willem Zuidema

Author : William Diver
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004208585
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language: Communication and Human Behavior written by William Diver and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these newly edited, annotated, and contextualized foundational linguistic works, many previously unpublished, the late William Diver of Columbia University radically analyzes language as a structure shaped by communicative function and by characteristics of its human users.

Author : Derek Bickerton
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295801042
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Human Behavior written by Derek Bickerton and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What this book proposes to do,” writes Derek Bickerton, “is to stand the conventional wisdom of the behavioral sciences on its head: instead of the human species growing clever enough to invent language, it will view that species as blundering into language and, as a direct result of that, becoming clever.” According to Bickerton, the behavioral sciences have failed to give an adequate account of human nature at least partly because of the conjunction and mutual reinforcement of two widespread beliefs: that language is simply a means of communication and that human intelligence is the result of the rapid growth and unusual size of human brains. Bickerton argues that each of the properties distinguishing human intelligence and consciousness from that of other animals can be shown to derive straightforwardly from properties of language. In essence, language arose as a representational system, not a means of communication or a skill, and not a product of culture but an evolutionary adaptation. The author stresses the necessity of viewing intelligence in evolutionary terms, seeing it not as problem solving but as a way of maintaining homeostasis—the preservation of those conditions most favorable to an organism, the optimal achievable conditions for survival and well-being. Nonhumans practice what he calls “on-line thinking” to maintain homeostasis, but only humans can employ off-line thinking: “only humans can assemble fragments of information to form a pattern that they can later act upon without having to wait on that great but unpunctual teacher, experience.” The term protolanguage is used to describe the stringing together of symbols that prehuman hominids employed. “It did not allow them to turn today’s imagination into tomorrow’s fact. But it is just this power to transform imagination into fact that distinguishes human behavior from that of our ancestral species, and indeed from that of all other species. It is exactly what enables us to change our behavior, or invent vast ranges of new behavior, practically overnight, with no concomitant genetic changes.” Language and Human Behavior should be of interest to anyone in the behavioral and evolutionary sciences and to all those concerned with the role of language in human behavior.

Author : Brent D. Ruben
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780131558472
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication and Human Behavior written by Brent D. Ruben and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johnnye Akin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110878755
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Behavior written by Johnnye Akin and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shahrzad Mahootian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792406768
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Language and Human Behavior written by Shahrzad Mahootian and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Diver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language written by William Diver and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Huffman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004209107
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language: Communication and Human Behavior written by Alan Huffman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these newly edited, annotated, and contextualized foundational linguistic works, many previously unpublished, the late William Diver of Columbia University radically analyzes language as a structure shaped by communicative function and by characteristics of its human users.

Author : Charles William Morris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs, Language and Behavior written by Charles William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the past twenty years Charles Morris has collected and co-ordinated the major developments in the field of communication, from the physical sciences to the arts, with the intention of formulating a comprehensive, reliable theory of signs. The result is this significant achievement that deserves to rank with the work of Ogden and Richards, Korzybski, and P. W. Bridgman. Signs, Language, and Behavior is not only an invaluable tool for the semantic specialist, but because it reaches into their domains it is of vital interest to scientists, philosophers, linguists, sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, educators, critics of the arts--to all, in fact, concerned with problems of meaning, language, and communication. For Dr. Morris considers signs in a wide variety of contexts: in relation to truth and belief, to poetry, religion, literature, morality, philosophy, and especially with reference to the individual in the contemporary world faced with interpreting and appraising the many complex signs around him"--Résumé de l'éditeur. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).