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• Title:Consciousness and the cultural invention of language / Filippo-Enrico Cardini.
  
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• Author/Creator:Cardini, Filippo-Enrico.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Taylor & Francis eBooks EBA
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• Published/Created:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
  

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  • Call Number: P37
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Psycholinguistics.
  Language and languages--Origin.
  Language and culture.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  
• Description:1 online resource
  
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• Summary:"This book studies the origins of language. It presents language as the product of a unique non-linguistic cognitive feature (i.e., metacognition) that emerged late in human evolution. Within this framework, the author lays special emphasis on the tight links that exist between language and consciousness, with the conviction that the creation of language was ultimately made possible by the onset of a new type of awareness that enabled the invention of words. The volume studies the parallels between human cultural behaviour and human language, discusses the motivational underpinnings that favoured the emergence of language, and offers a possible evolutionary timeline for the advent of language. It also addresses the questions of whether artificial intelligence will ever develop the kind of thinking and language observable in humans. A unique look into the beginnings of human language, this book will be indispensable for students and researchers of language and linguistics, language evolution, cultural studies, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive science"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781032379937
  9781032388601
  
• Contents:Human behaviour and human language
  Two opposing views on the origins of language
  The flimsy foundations of linguistic nativism
  Is there any evidence of spontaneously emergent languages?
  Making the case for a conscious invention of language
  Secondary consciousness and language
  Seeing the invisible: the advent of conceptual thinking
  The cooperative roots of language and the new social mind
  When did language appear?
  Constructing a language from scratch: a few issues
  Some implications of the proposed picture
  Will AI ever develop a human-like intelligence and language?