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Publication details [#44097]

Cheung, Tobias. 2006. The language monopoly: Plessner on apes, humans and expressions. Language & Communication 26 (3-4) : 316–330.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropological linguistics | biology | philosophy | psychology

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper discusses Helmuth Plessner’s theory on the human monopoly of language due to their “eccentric position” and contextualize this theory within the research domains of biology, psychology and philosophy.