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From pantomime to language| title | From pantomime to language |
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| start_date | 2025/05/21 |
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| schedule | 14h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle des Actes |
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| summary | This lecture builds on the view that teaching in hominin societies is an important factor in the evolution of language (rather than language opening up for teaching). First, I will analyze differences between demonstration and pantomime. An important factor is that a pantomime can be detached, that is, it can refer to entities that are not present or to other moments of time. I shall then introduce a distinction between pantomime for teaching and for communication and analyze six factors– communicative sign function, degree of detachment, pragmatic form, represented action, perspective, and degree of pretense – which all suggest that pantomime for teaching is evolutionarily older. I will present a recent experiment that supports the distinction between the two types of pantomime. By conventionalization, pantomime for communication then gradually evolved into protolanguage involving a combination of gestures and vocalizations. After making some remarks on the evolution of grammar and its functions, I will defend a fundamental thesis : sentences typically express events. |
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| responsibles | NC |
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| submitted | published | | 2025/05/06 09:24 UTC |
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