On The Origins Of Speaking
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On The Origins Of Speaking
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Author : Lord Walsingham
language : en
Publisher: New Generation Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-22
On The Origins Of Speaking written by Lord Walsingham and has been published by New Generation Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-22 with categories.
This is a serious book examining the original sounds and meanings of languages right back to the Stone Age - up until now believed to be impossible. But it can also be seen as tracing the overwhelming sexual orientation of human thinking for the last six hundred thousand years or more - when we were only hominids, squatting round the camp fires at the mouths of our caves - to keep the sabre toothed tigers out. It was here that our original bare bottomed language committees first got to grips with meanings and their audible representation. The committees were convened as a result of the taming of fire, the high tech of the day. It was a cosy environment in a cold and hostile world, and the unaccustomed warmth led to an outburst of amorous inclinations, and the need to express them in words. Ka they thought echoic of the strike of flint on flint, and so striking, and so the tenderising of raw meat for which they had already been making "e;hand axes"e; for at least half a million years. It is from ka-ka for tenderising with a hand axe that our cooking comes! The flame did it for you. Flint knapping left a lot of "e;debetage"e; or waste flakes, whence ka-ka also came to mean waste - including today human waste. Metaphor led to odd bedfellows. All this evidence is decoded from an exhaustive forty year research into over a hundred languages, many of them dead ones, where like flies in amber our original Lithic (Stone Age) language roots are still embedded. There is nothing salacious in the tale. It simply tells it as it is and was, and it is not going to go away. This short version is abstracted from a major work of over 600 pages, and there is nothing in it which the ordinary man in the street (and his sister) can not easily follow. It ranks quite highly in the order of useless information, but it has its indirect usage. If you understand how all our languages have actually come about - the product of human whimsy - you will be that much less likely to believe some of the sillier alternative views put forward by ideologically inclined placemen. Lastly, how has Lithic Language been cracked? The answer lies in "e;semantic triangulation"e;. Believe it or not, all our languages today (over 6000) bear traces of the original meanings given to the sounds as we first learned to articulate them, and it is possible to work backwards using the current meanings in numerous languages to home in on the original source meanings which are common to the current ones. Then we can see if they make sense as a first guess by our Stone Age (hominid) forebears of what they thought of as the "e;natural"e; meanings of the sounds. They didn't do thinking very much. That is how they all guessed the same, or nearly the same. So we are probably on the right track: language was all spun by human whimsy, (over a few hundred millennia), from only a baker's dozen original articulated sounds. The English language alone reached a million words last year.
Speaking Australopithecus A New Theory On The Origins Of Human Language
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Author : Francesco Benozzo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Speaking Australopithecus A New Theory On The Origins Of Human Language written by Francesco Benozzo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
On The Origins Of Language
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Author : Philip Lieberman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
On The Origins Of Language written by Philip Lieberman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Origin Of Languages And The Antiquity Of Speaking Man
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Author : Horatio Hale
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
The Origin Of Languages And The Antiquity Of Speaking Man written by Horatio Hale and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
In this fascinating and wide-ranging address, the world-renowned linguist and anthropologist Horatio Hale explores the origins of language and the deep roots of human communication. Drawing on a vast array of evidence from biology, archaeology, and linguistics, Hale presents a compelling case for a nuanced understanding of language as both a cultural and a biological phenomenon. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Speak A Short History Of Languages
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Author : Tore Janson
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2002-03-14
Speak A Short History Of Languages written by Tore Janson and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is a history of human speech from prehistory to the present. It charts the rise of some languages and the fall of others, explaining why some survive and others die. It shows how languages change their sounds and meanings, and how the history of languages is closely linked to the history of peoples. Writing in a lively, readable style, distinguished Swedish scholar Tore Janson makes no assumptions about previous knowledge. He takes the reader on a voyage of exploration through the changing patterns of the world's languages, from ancient China to ancient Egypt, imperial Rome to imperial Britain, Sappho's Lesbos to contemporary Africa. He discovers the links between the histories of societies and their languages; he shows how language evolved from primitive calls; he considers the question of whether one language can be more advanced than another. The author describes the history of writing and looks at the impact of changing technology. He ends by assessing the prospects for English world domination and predicting the languages of the distant future. Five historical maps illustrate this fascinating history of our defining characteristic and most valuable asset.
On The Origins Of Speaking
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Author : John Walsingham
language : en
Publisher: Trafford
Release Date : 2006
On The Origins Of Speaking written by John Walsingham and has been published by Trafford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
This book diverts linguistics away from universal grammar (a late confection) and back to etymology, tracing meanings and word formation back to the Stone Age, previously treated as impossible.
How Language Began
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Author : David McNeill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-30
How Language Began written by David McNeill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess. Nearly all theorizing about the origins of language either ignores gesture, views it as an add-on or supposes that language began in gesture and was later replaced by speech. David McNeill challenges the popular 'gesture-first' theory that language first emerged in a gesture-only form and proposes a groundbreaking theory of the evolution of language which explains how speech and gesture became unified.
The Seeds Of Speech
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Author : Jean Aitchison
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-05-04
The Seeds Of Speech written by Jean Aitchison and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Clear and non-technical overview of the history of language development by popular author. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Origin Of Speech
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Author : Peter F. MacNeilage
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010
The Origin Of Speech written by Peter F. MacNeilage and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book explores the origin and evolution of speech. The human speech system is in a league of its own in the animal kingdom and its possession dwarfs most other evolutionary achievements. During every second of speech we unconsciously use about 225 distinct muscle actions. To investigate the evolutionary origins of this prodigious ability, Peter MacNeilage draws on work in linguistics, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and animal behavior. He puts forward a neo-Darwinian account of speech as a process of descent in which ancestral vocal capabilities became modified in response to natural selection pressures for more efficient communication. His proposals include the crucial observation that present-day infants learning to produce speech reveal constraints that were acting on our ancestors as they invented new words long ago. This important and original investigation integrates the latest research on modern speech capabilities, their acquisition, and their neurobiology, including the issues surrounding the cerebral hemispheric specialization for speech. Written in a clear style with minimal recourse to jargon the book will interest a wide range of readers in cognitive, neuro-, and evolutionary science, as well as all those seeking to understand the nature and evolution of speech and human communication.
The Origin Of Languages And The Antiquity Of Speaking Man
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Author : Horatio Hale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-05-16
The Origin Of Languages And The Antiquity Of Speaking Man written by Horatio Hale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-16 with categories.