Becoming Human: From pointing gestures to syntax
Teresa Bejarano
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 81] 2011. xvii, 402 pp.
Teresa Bejarano
List of John Benjamins publications for which Teresa Bejarano plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research | Evolution of language | Gesture Studies
Articles
2003 Metarepresentation and human capacities Pragmatics & Cognition 11:1, pp. 93–140 | Article
Both metarepresentation and cultural learning have an identical origin. The imitation of new and complex motor patterns (also articulatory-phonetic patterns) is a crucial skill not only because it enables cultural transmission but also because its high requisites give rise to the exclusively human… read more
1999 Prelinguistic metaphors? Pragmatics & Cognition 7:2, pp. 361–373 | Article
The gap between the prelinguistic and the linguistic levels cannot be bridged as easily as Lakoff's cognitive linguistics suggests. Lakoff's event structure metaphor is reviewed here. Compared with physical movement, the bringing together of separated elements which occurs in predication would not… read more