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Publication details [#58442]

Ferretti, Francesco and Ines Adornetti. 2014. Against linguistic Cartesianism: Toward a naturalistic model of human language origins and functioning. Language & Communication 37 : 29–39.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | contextualization | natural language | origins of human communication | social interaction

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This study presents a genuinely naturalistic model of language origins and functioning predicated upon two hypotheses: (a) the origin of human language is explicable in alluding to the founding of language in context; (b) the skills that assure this basing are linked to the impellent foundation of human communication.