American Sign Language
Animal Kingdom
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Children's False Belief Understanding
Children’s False Belief Understanding
Common Language
comparative psychology
cultural transmission
De Villiers
Deaf Children
Deaf Children's Gesture
Deaf Children’s Gesture
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evolution of cooperative behaviour
False Belief Tasks
False Belief Test
False Belief Understanding
Gaze Alternation
Gesture Speech Mismatch
Hands Free Condition
human culture
human evolution
Human Sociality
infant development
Infant Pointing
Intention Attribution
Interaction Engine
Joint Attention Condition
Joint Attentional Engagement
language acquisition
Mental State Terms
Mountain Gorillas
multimodal communication
Pointing Gesture
pragmatics
social cognition
social interaction
ToM Development
ToM Study
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Product details
- ISBN 9781845203948
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book marks an exciting convergence towards the idea that human culture and cognition are rooted in the character of human social interaction, which is unique in the animal kingdom. Roots of Human Sociality attempts for the first time to explore the underlying properties of social interaction viewed from across many disciplines, and examines their origins in infant development and in human evolution. Are interaction patterns in adulthood affected by cultural differences in childhood upbringing? Apes, unlike human infants of only 12 months, fail to understand pointing and the intention behind it. Nevertheless apes can imitate and analyze complex behavior - how do they do it? Deaf children brought up by speaking parents invent their own languages. How might adults deprived of a fully organized language communicate?This book makes the case that the study of these sorts of phenomenon holds the key to understanding the foundations of human social life. The conclusion: our unique brand of social interaction is at the root of what makes us human.
Nicholas J. Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson are at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
