Julia Cissewski
List of John Benjamins publications for which Julia Cissewski plays a role.
Article
Communication without language: How great apes may cover crucial advantages of language without creating a system of symbolic communication Gesture 15:2, pp. 224–249 | Article
2016 Great apes do not possess language or any comparable system of symbolic communication. Yet they communicate intentionally and possess cognitive competencies like categorization and decontextualization. These provide the basis for mental concepts and the meaning side of linguistic symbols. The… read more