Name: Origins of Human Communication
ISBN: 9780262515207

作者: Michael Tomasello
出版社: The MIT Press
出版年: 2010-9-30
ISBN: 9780262515207
页数: 408
装帧: Paperback
定价: USD 18.00
丛书: The Jean Nicod Lectures

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Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction. Tomasello argues that human cooperative communication rests on a psychological infrastructure of shared intentionality (joint attention, common ground), evolved originally for collaboration and culture more generally. The basic motives of the infrastructure are helping and sharing: humans communicate to request help, inform others of things helpfully, and share attitudes as a way of bonding within the cultural group. These cooperative motives each created different functional pressures for conventionalizing grammatical constructions. Requesting help in the immediate you-and-me and here-and-now, for example, required very little grammar, but informing and sharing required increasingly complex grammatical devices. Drawing on empirical research into gestural and vocal communication by great apes and human infants (much of it conducted by his own research team), Tomasello argues further that humans' cooperative communication emerged first in the natural gestures of pointing and pantomiming. Conventional communication, first gestural and then vocal, evolved only after humans already possessed these natural gestures and their shared intentionality infrastructure along with skills of cultural learning for creating and passing along jointly understood communicative conventions. Challenging the Chomskian view that linguistic knowledge is innate, Tomasello proposes instead that the most fundamental aspects of uniquely human communication are biological adaptations for cooperative social interaction in general and that the purely linguistic dimensions of human communication are cultural conventions and constructions created by and passed along within particular cultural groups.

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迈克尔·托马塞洛(1950—，Michael Tomasello)

美国发展心理学家，担任德国莱比锡马克思普朗克演化人类学研究所所长，兼任沃尔夫冈克勒灵长类研究中心(Wolfgang Kohler Primate Research Cerlter)主任。心理学出身的托马塞洛，跨足语言学及生物演化等研究领域。主要从发展、比较、文化的角度来探究社会认知、社会学习、人类和类人猿的沟通／语言等议题。并着重研究儿童如何通过习得语言，成为文化团体的一分子。同时还致力于研究与人类最接近的灵长动物黑猩猩，以探究人类语言群体演化发展的起源。

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Jim Moriarty 2赞 2016-08-26 23:13:16

—— 引自第146页
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Jim Moriarty 2赞 2016-08-26 23:30:56

—— 引自第148页