Roots of Human Sociality

Culture, Cognition and Interaction
Herausgeber: Enfield, Nicholas J.; Levinson, Stephen C.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 546
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 819g
• ISBN-13: 9781845203948
• ISBN-10: 1845203941
• Artikelnr.: 21815173

Autorenporträt

Nicholas J. Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson are at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Human Sociality as a New Interdisciplinary FieldN.J.
Enfield and Stepehn C. Levinson* Part 1: Properties of Human Interaction*
On the Human 'Interaction Engine'Stephen C. Levinson* Interaction: The
Infrastructure for Social Institutions, the Natural Ecological Niche for
Language, and the Arena in which Culture is EnactedEmanuel A. Schegloff*
Human Sociality as Mutual Orientation in a Rich Interactive Environment:
Multimodal Utterances and Pointing in AphasiaCharles Goodwin* Social
Actions, Social CommitmentsHerbert H. Clark* Part 2: Psychological
Foundations* Infant Pointing at 12 Months: Communicative Goals, Motives,
and Social-Cognitive AbilitiesUlf Liszkowski* The Development
Interdependence of Theory of Mind and LanguageJanet Wilde Astington*
Constructing the Social Mind: Language and False-Belief UnderstandingJennie
E. Pyers* Sylvia's Recipe: The Role of Imitation and Pedagogy in the
Transmission of Cultural KnowledgeGyörgy Gergely and Gergely Csibra* Part
3: Culture and Sociality* The Thought that Counts: The Interactional
Consequences of Variation in Cultural Theories of MeaningEve Danziger*
Cultural Perspectives on Infant-Caregiver InteractionSuzanne Gaskins* Joint
Commitment and Common Ground in a Ritual EventWilliam F. Hanks* Habits and
Innovations: Designing Language for New, Technologically Mediated
SocialityElizabeth Keating* Part 4: Cognition in Interaction* Meeting Other
Minds through Gesture: How Children Use their Hands to Reinvent Language
and Distribute CognitionSusan Goldin-Meadow* The Distributed Cognition
Perspective on Human InteractionEdwin Hutchins* Social Consequences of
Common Ground N.J. Enfield* Why a Deep Understanding of Cultural Evolution
is Incompatible with Shallow PsychologyDan Sperber* Part 5: Evolutionary
Perspectives* Culture and the Evolution of the Human Social Instincts R.
Boyd and P. J. Richerson* Parsing Behavior: A Mundane Origin for an
Extraordinary Ability?Richard W. Byrne* Why Don't Apes Point?Michael
Tomasello