Download or read book The Functions of Human Communication written by Frank E. X. Dance and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1976 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Communication in Action written by Eric Lee Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Origins of Human Communication written by Michael Tomasello and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view. Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction. Tomasello argues that human cooperative communication rests on a psychological infrastructure of shared intentionality (joint attention, common ground), evolved originally for collaboration and culture more generally. The basic motives of the infrastructure are helping and sharing: humans communicate to request help, inform others of things helpfully, and share attitudes as a way of bonding within the cultural group. These cooperative motives each created different functional pressures for conventionalizing grammatical constructions. Requesting help in the immediate you-and-me and here-and-now, for example, required very little grammar, but informing and sharing required increasingly complex grammatical devices. Drawing on empirical research into gestural and vocal communication by great apes and human infants (much of it conducted by his own research team), Tomasello argues further that humans' cooperative communication emerged first in the natural gestures of pointing and pantomiming. Conventional communication, first gestural and then vocal, evolved only after humans already possessed these natural gestures and their shared intentionality infrastructure along with skills of cultural learning for creating and passing along jointly understood communicative conventions. Challenging the Chomskian view that linguistic knowledge is innate, Tomasello proposes instead that the most fundamental aspects of uniquely human communication are biological adaptations for cooperative social interaction in general and that the purely linguistic dimensions of human communication are cultural conventions and constructions created by and passed along within particular cultural groups.
Download or read book Communicating and Connecting written by Donohue and published by Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communicating and Connecting written by William Anthony Donohue and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Communication written by Mukund Sarvaiya and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any thing which has life communicates... This book explains how humans communicates...
Download or read book Human Communication written by Michael Burgoon and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of human communication
Download or read book Human Communication written by Maria D. Sera and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2021 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume contains a collection of contributions from leading scholars who study language and communication from comparative, developmental, and biological perspectives. The goals of the volume are four-fold. They are to (1) sketch the parallels and differences between animal communication systems and human language, (2) advance our understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms involved in human language development; (3) clarify infants' understanding of the social or communicative functions that language serves; and (4) better understand how language supports and advances aspects of development beyond language itself. We organized the volume into two parts. Part I focuses on Origins and Part II focuses on Functions. Part I, on Phylogenetic Origins, explores the development of human language and communication from both phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspectives. The first three chapters focus on phylogenetic issues. The first chapter by Catherine Hobaiter (A very long look back at language development: exploring the evolutionary origins of human language) describes the communication "tool kit" that humans share with modern apes, and analyzes the shared modes of communication and the nature of the information conveyed. The second chapter by Athena Vouloumanos and Amy Yamashiro (Building a communication system in infancy) discusses how the preference of young animals to listen to the speech of other members of their own species develops, and how they use this information to recognize when information with a communicative function is being transmitted. The third chapter by Ann Senghas (Connecting language acquisition and language evolution: Clues from the emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language) offers evidence suggesting that the evolution of complex human syntax from a simple communication system can evolve over just a few generations of language users, if the users are children. Taken together, these chapters offer a fascinating picture of how human language might have evolved"--
Download or read book Communicating and Connecting written by William A. Donohue and published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-08-07 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communicating and Connecting written by William Anthony Donohue and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communicating and Connecting written by William Anthony Donohue and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communicating and Connecting written by William A. Donohue and published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Communication written by Michael Burgoon and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993-11-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Edition of this classic textbook provides the most up-to-date summary of current theory and research in human communication today. Written in an accessible style, the book examines the fundamentals of communication and the functions that communication serves in society. The text provides students with a working vocabulary of the discipline, a detailed outline of some of the crucial questions to be asked, summaries of current theories and research, and relevant applications.
Download or read book Communicating and Connecting written by Donohue and published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pragmatics of Human Communication A Study of Interactional Patterns Pathologies and Paradoxes written by Paul Watzlawick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The properties and function of human communication. Called “one of the best books ever about human communication,” and a perennial bestseller, Pragmatics of Human Communication has formed the foundation of much contemporary research into interpersonal communication, in addition to laying the groundwork for context-based approaches to psychotherapy. The authors present the simple but radical idea that problems in life often arise from issues of communication, rather than from deep psychological disorders, reinforcing their conceptual explorations with case studies and well-known literary examples. Written with humor and for a variety of readers, this book identifies simple properties and axioms of human communication and demonstrates how all communications are actually a function of their contexts. Topics covered in this wide-ranging book include: the origins of communication; the idea that all behavior is communication; meta-communication; the properties of an open system; the family as a system of communication; the nature of paradox in psychotherapy; existentialism and human communication.
Download or read book The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Communication written by Vesna Mildner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about speech and language. It is primarily intended for those interested in speech and its neurophysiological bases: phoneticians, linguists, educators, speech therapists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Although speech and language are its central topic, it provides information about related topics as well (e.g. structure and functioning of the central nervous system, research methods in neuroscience, theories and models of speech production and perception, learning, and memory). Data on clinical populations are given in parallel with studies of healthy subjects because such comparisons can give a better understanding of intact and disordered speech and language functions. There is a review of literature (more than 600 sources) and research results covering areas such as neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, development of the nervous system, sex differences, history of neurolinguistics, behavioral, neuroimaging and other research methods in neuroscience, linguistics and psychology, theories and models of the nervous system function including speech and language processing, kinds of memory and learning and their neural substrates, critical periods, various aspects of normal speech and language processes (e.g. phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, reading), bilingualism, speech and language disorders, and many others. Newcomers to the field of neurolinguistics will find it as readable as professionals will because it is organized in a way that gives the readers flexibility and an individual approach to the text. The language is simple but all the technical terms are provided, explained, and illustrated. A comprehensive glossary provides additional information.
Download or read book Communicating and Connecting written by William A. Donohue and published by . This book was released on 2004-08-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
