Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language

ISBN: 9780198747314 出版年：2017 页码：276 Reboul, Anne Oxford University Press

This book shows that language, though now routinely used for communication, actually primarily evolved as a system for thought. Anne Reboul proposes a new two-step approach whereby syntax first evolved as a language of thought, which was then externalized for communication due to social selection pressures.