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THE MEANING OF PRIMATE SIGNALS
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| By: |
Rom Harre (Editor), Vernon Reynolds (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521087732 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521087735 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 July, 2008 |
| Series: |
Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Language is just one particularly highly developed form of primate communication. |
| Synopsis: |
Language is just one particularly highly developed form of primate communication. Recent years have seen increased attention to other forms: studies of animals in the wild, efforts to teach sign language to apes. This volume reflects perspectives from a variety of disciplines on the nature and function of primate signalling systems. Monkeys and apes, like people, live in a world in which they are constantly receiving and transmitting information. How can we interpret the ways in which they process it without imposing our own language-based categorizations? The problem is partly scientific, partly conceptual: that is, partly concerned with what language is. The authors' findings and insights will be of interest to a broad group of primatologists, linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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