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The Simian Tongue
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Author : Gregory Radick
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2007
The Simian Tongue written by Gregory Radick and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Science categories.
Yet for most of the next century, the simian tongue and the means for its study existed at the scientific periphery.
The Simian Tongue
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Author : Gregory Radick
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-01-23
The Simian Tongue written by Gregory Radick and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-23 with Science categories.
In the early 1890s the theory of evolution gained an unexpected ally: the Edison phonograph. An amateur scientist used the new machine—one of the technological wonders of the age—to record monkey calls, play them back to the monkeys, and watch their reactions. From these soon-famous experiments he judged that he had discovered “the simian tongue,” made up of words he was beginning to translate, and containing the rudiments from which human language evolved. Yet for most of the next century, the simian tongue and the means for its study existed at the scientific periphery. Both returned to great acclaim only in the early 1980s, after a team of ethologists announced that experimental playback showed certain African monkeys to have rudimentarily meaningful calls. Drawing on newly discovered archival sources and interviews with key scientists, Gregory Radick here reconstructs the remarkable trajectory of a technique invented and reinvented to listen in on primate communication. Richly documented and powerfully argued, The Simian Tongue charts the scientific controversies over the evolution of language from Darwin’s day to our own, resurrecting the forgotten debts of psychology, anthropology, and other behavioral sciences to the Victorian debate about the animal roots of human language.
What It Means To Be Human
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Author : Joanna Bourke
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2013-07-23
What It Means To Be Human written by Joanna Bourke and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-23 with Social Science categories.
In 1872, a woman known only as "An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled "Are Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In fact, their status was worse than that of animals: regulations prohibiting cruelty against dogs, horses, and cattle were significantly more punitive than laws against cruelty to women. The Earnest Englishwoman's heartfelt cry was for women to "become–animal" in order to gain the status that they were denied on the grounds that they were not part of "mankind." In this fascinating account, Joanna Bourke addresses the profound question of what it means to be "human" rather than "animal." How are people excluded from political personhood? How does one become entitled to rights? The distinction between the two concepts is a blurred line, permanently under construction. If the Earnest Englishwoman had been capable of looking 100 years into the future, she might have wondered about the human status of chimeras, or the ethics of stem cell research. Political disclosures and scientific advances have been re–locating the human–animal border at an alarming speed. In this meticulously researched, illuminating book, Bourke explores the legacy of more than two centuries, and looks forward into what the future might hold for humans, women, and animals.
Origin Of Language
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Author : Roy Harris
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Origin Of Language written by Roy Harris and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Public debate about language in the English-speaking world during the nineteenth century turned on the issue of how language began. The notion that language was a divine gift to humanity, not shared by lower creatures, was supported by the Biblical accounts of Adam naming the animals and of the Tower of Babel. It was still accepted by leading religious authorities. But this notion was seriously brought into question by the publication of Darwin's theory of evolution. Those who rejected Darwinism ridiculed all attempts to conjure up language out of primitive calls, grunts, and ejaculations. No animals, it was pointed out, had yet achieved communication remotely resembling the use of words. On the other side were those who held that it was possible to account for the birth of language rationally as a function of the development of human communicational needs in society.
Darwin And The Argument By Analogy
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Author : Roger M. White
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-04
Darwin And The Argument By Analogy written by Roger M. White 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 2021-11-04 with Philosophy categories.
Sets out an original perspective on Darwin's argument for the theory of natural selection.
Language Science And Popular Fiction In The Victorian Fin De Si Cle
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Author : Christine Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Language Science And Popular Fiction In The Victorian Fin De Si Cle written by Christine Ferguson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siècle. Focusing on a variety of literary and non-literary texts, the book maps out the dialogue between the Victorian life and social sciences most involved in the study of language and the literary genre frequently indicted for causing linguistic corruption and debasement - popular fiction. Ferguson demonstrates how Darwinian biological, philological, and anthropological accounts of 'primitive' and animal language were co-opted into wider cultural debates about the apparent brutality of popular fiction, and shows how popular novelists such as Marie Corelli, Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, and Bram Stoker used their fantastic narratives to radically reformulate the relationships among language, thought, and progress that underwrote much of the contemporary prejudice against mass literary taste. In its alignment of scientific, cultural, and popular discourses of human language, Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle stands as a corrective to assessments of best-selling fiction's intellectual, ideological, and aesthetic simplicity.
The New Review
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
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The Review Of Reviews
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Author : William Thomas Stead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
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Popular Exhibitions Science And Showmanship 1840 1910
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Author : Joe Kember
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2016-09-12
Popular Exhibitions Science And Showmanship 1840 1910 written by Joe Kember and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-12 with Science categories.
Victorian culture was characterized by a proliferation of shows and exhibitions. These were encouraged by the development of new sciences and technologies, together with changes in transportation, education and leisure patterns. The essays in this collection look at exhibitions and their influence in terms of location, technology and ideology.
New Media 1740 1915
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Author : Lisa Gitelman
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2003
New Media 1740 1915 written by Lisa Gitelman and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
A cultural history of media that were "new media" in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
