Functional Dimensions of Ape-human Discourse Hardback
Edited by James D. Benson, William S. Greaves
Part of the Functional Linguistics series
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Functional Dimensions of Ape-Human Discourse asks the question 'what do interactions between apes and humans mediated by language tell us?'.
In order to answer this question the authors explore language-in-context, drawing on a multi-leveled, multi-functional linguistics.
The levels are context of culture, context of situation, semantics, lexicogrammar, and phonology; and the functions are ideational, interpersonal, and textual.
Chapter 1 discusses a negotiation between the bonobo Kanzi and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh in terms of discourse-semantics, lexicogrammar, and the ideational and interpersonal metafunctions of language.
Chapter 2 reinterprets Sue Savage-Rumbaugh et. al. Language Comprehension in Ape and Child (1993) in terms of the ideational metafunction, and provides corroborative evidence for Kanzi's symbolic processing abilities, opening a window into the consciousness of at least one non-human primate. Chapter 3 compares three snapshots from comprehensive studies based on large amounts of data (monkey calls, language development in a human child, and a dialogue between Kanzi's sibling Panbanisha and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh) from an evolutionary perspective, showing different ways in which the level of grammar comes to be wedged in between semantics and expression.
Chapter 4 articulates a methodology incorporating public domain software for the comprehensive analysis of ape-human interaction.
Although bonobo-human interaction is used as an example, the methodology could be utilized for studies of chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
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- Publication Date:01/04/2005
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- ISBN:9781904768050
