Christophe Boesch
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christophe Boesch plays a role.
Article
2016 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
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