Sociobiological Bases Of Information Structure

Author : Viviana Masia
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264688

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Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure by Viviana Masia Pdf

The book tackles the sociobiological bases of Information Structure (IS) inquiring both its evidential and neurobiological underpinnings in human communication. Its purpose is to delve into the epistemic and neurocognitive rationales behind the realization of informational hierarchies in a sentence. The book zooms in on an interplay, that between IS and evidentiality, that has never been explored in IS studies and seeks to recast IS phenomena in an epistemological perspective. The neurocognitive approaches discussed propose neurophysiological investigations on IS processing, both with ERP and ERS vs. ERD measurements. In its overall structure and general purposes, the book is conceived for interested scholars working in the fields of linguistics, neuropragmatics, experimental psychology, philosophy of language and cognitive sciences in general, and it adds some further contribution to ongoing psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic experimental research on the processing of topic-focus and presupposition-assertion dichotomies.

Author : Viviana Masia
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259882

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The Manipulative Disguise of Truth by Viviana Masia Pdf

Becoming effective hunters of manipulative communicative moves is far from an easy capacity to develop. This book aims at offering a guide to the most dangerous traps of deceptive language as triggered by implicit communication strategies such as presupposition, implicature, topicalization and vague expressions. A look at different contexts of language use highlights some of the most remarkable implications of using indirect speech and of how it affects the correct comprehension of a message. Within the remit of communication and pragmatics studies, this work marks an advancement in the direction of delving into the linguistic manifestations of manipulative discourse, its most common contexts of use and the educational paths that can be undertaken to master it in everyday interactions.

Author : Davide Garassino,Daniel Jacob
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258151

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When Data Challenges Theory by Davide Garassino,Daniel Jacob Pdf

This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure. The relevance of ‘unexpected’ data taken into account in the last decades, such as the well-known case of non-focalizing cleft sentences in Germanic and Romance, has increasingly led us to give more weight to explanations involving inferential reasoning, discourse organization and speakers’ rhetorical strategies, thus moving away from ‘sentence-based’ perspectives. At the same time, this shift towards pragmatic complexity has introduced new challenges to well-established information-structural categories, such as Focus and Topic, to the point that some scholars nowadays even doubt about their descriptive and theoretical usefulness. This book brings together researchers working in different frameworks and delving into cross-linguistic as well as language-internal variation and language contact. Despite their differences, all contributions are committed to the same underlying goal: appreciating the relation between linguistic structures and their context based on a firm empirical grounding and on theoretical models that are able to account for the challenges and richness of language use.

Author : Alessandro Capone,Manuel García-Carpintero,Alessandra Falzone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319787718

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Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages by Alessandro Capone,Manuel García-Carpintero,Alessandra Falzone Pdf

This volume addresses the intriguing issue of indirect reports from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributors include philosophers, theoretical linguists, socio-pragmaticians, and cognitive scientists. The book is divided into four sections following the provenance of the authors. Combining the voices from leading and emerging authors in the field, it offers a detailed picture of indirect reports in the world’s languages and their significance for theoretical linguistics. Building on the previous book on indirect reports in this series, this volume adds an empirical and cross-linguistic approach that covers an impressive range of languages, such as Cantonese, Japanese, Hebrew, Persian, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Armenian, Italian, English, Hungarian, German, Rumanian, and Basque.

Author : Susagna Tubau,Urtzi Etxeberria,Viviane Marie Deprez,M.Teresa Espinal
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889663743

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What are (Un)Acceptability and (Un)Grammaticality? How do They Relate to One Another and to Interpretation? by Susagna Tubau,Urtzi Etxeberria,Viviane Marie Deprez,M.Teresa Espinal Pdf

Author : Luis A. Ebensperger,Loren D. Hayes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118846520

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Sociobiology of Caviomorph Rodents by Luis A. Ebensperger,Loren D. Hayes Pdf

Fully integrative approach to the socibiology of caviomorph rodents Brings together research on social systems with that on epigenetic, neurendocrine and developmental mechanisms of social behavior Describes the social systems of many previously understudied caviomorph species, identifying the fitness costs and benefits of social living in current day populations as well as quantified evolutionary patterns or trends Highlights potential parallels and differences with other animal models

Author : J.H. Fetzer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400953703

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Sociobiology and Epistemology by J.H. Fetzer Pdf

The papers presented in this special collection focus upon conceptual, the oretical and epistemological aspects of sociobiology, an emerging discipline that deals with the extent to which genetic factors influence or control patterns of behavior as well as the extent to which patterns of behavior, in turn, influence or control genetic evolution. The Prologue advances a compre hensive acco/unt of the field of gene-culture co-evolution, where Lumsden and Gushurst differentiate between "classical" sociobiology (represented especially by Wilson's early work) and current research on human socio biology (represented by Lumsden and Wilson's later work), which emphasizes interplay between genes, minds, and culture. The specter of genetic deter minism, no doubt, has created considerable controversy, some of which may be laid to rest by Hanna's analysis of the (ambiguous) notion of a "genetic program", which indicates the necessity for distinguishing between descriptive and prescriptive dimensions of this complex concept. Brandon offers a framework for assessing the respective contributions of nature and of nurture by advancing a means for measuring genetic and cultural influences upon "inheritance", which supports the conclusion that evolving patterns of behavior do not always maximize inclusive fitness, contrary to what socio biologists have claimed. The influence of culture upon genetic evolution, of course, can be adequately appraised only when a suitable account of culture itself has been found, a desideratum Smillie attempts to satisfy by utilizing the notion of "cinfo" as culturally transmitted ecological informa tion, a resource other species tend not to exploit.

Author : M. Wainwright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230391819

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Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic by M. Wainwright Pdf

This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Theodore Dreiser, John Roderigo Dos Passos, and William Faulkner.

Author : Patrizia d'Ettorre,David P. Hughes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191550850

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Sociobiology of Communication by Patrizia d'Ettorre,David P. Hughes Pdf

Communication is essential for all forms of social interaction, from parental care to mate choice and cooperation. This is evident for human societies but less obvious for bacterial biofilms, ant colonies or flocks of birds. The major disciplines of communication research have tried to identify common core principles, but syntheses have been few because historical barriers have limited interaction between different research fields. Sociobiology of Communication is a timely and novel synthesis. It bridges many of the gaps between proximate and ultimate levels of analysis, between empirical model systems, and between biology and the humanities. The book offers the complementary approaches of a distinguished group of authors spanning a large diversity of research programs, addressing, for example, the genetic basis of bacterial communication, dishonest communication in insect societies, sexual selection and network communication among colonial vertebrates. Other chapters explore the role of communication in genomic conflict and self-organisation, and how linguistics, psychology and philosophy may ultimately contribute to a biological understanding of human mate choice and the evolution of human societies. This highly interdisciplinary book highlights key examples of modern research to explore the genetic, neurobiological, physiological, chemical and behavioural basis of social communication. It identifies where consensus on the general principles is emerging and where the major future challenges are to be found. The book is therefore suitable for both for graduate students and professionals in evolutionary biology and behavioural ecology seeking novel inspiration, and for a wider academic audience, including social and medical scientists who would like to explore what evolutionary approaches can offer to their fields.

Author : Peter Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662038253

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Sociobiology and Bioeconomics by Peter Koslowski Pdf

The theory of evolution and Neo-Darwinian biological theory extend their analysis in sociobiology from the life sciences and the animal societies to human societies. Sociobiology as a unifying theory of the social interaction within and between species has led to an integration of economic analysis into biology. The economy of nature has become the subject of bioeconomics which in turn transferred biological analysis to the human economy. Evolution, competition, selection, and cooperation are phenomena common to the economy of nature and human economy. The inclusion of economic and cultural theory in evolution theory raises the question whether the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis with its exclusive concern with somatic heredity is able to incorporate developmental systems of the human economy and of cultural heredity. A new synthesis of the natural and the social sciences is in the making.

Author : Georg Breuer
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521287782

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Sociobiology and the Human Dimension by Georg Breuer Pdf

This book is about animals and humans - their common features and their gradual and principle differences. It tells of democracy in baboons, prostitution in hummingbirds, bigamy in wrens, baby sitting in jackals, of chimpanzees at the computer console and of the super-ego of dogs - but it is also about the labour productivity of hunter and gatherer peoples, incest avoidance in animals and humans and of the myths about matriarchy. In a language accessible to any interested layman, Georg Breuer, gives a balanced account of the main ideas and achievements of sociobiology and the main criticisms levelled against it. According to him sociobiology has given many a valuable impetus but sometimes presents a distorted or one-sided view. In particular it has not answered or addressed the question of why man, and man only, is able to identify and feel sympathy with any other human being. The evolution of this most human of all traits confers on us the capability for charity and solidarity and for the happiness of true love which is unattainable by any animal.

Author : Sejin Park,Georges Guille-Escuret
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786301352

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Sociobiology vs Socioecology by Sejin Park,Georges Guille-Escuret Pdf

As a theory, sociobiology is opposed to socio-ecology, a discipline hampered since its birth. The indictment of the ideological intentions of the first has obscured the notion that the growing domination of the image of the “selfish gene” has obstructed the necessary rise of the second. For 40 years, a terrible force of inertia has thus frozen the global analysis of socio-ecological interactions outside the theoretical bias externally imposed on social sciences by so-called “behavioral ecology”, which amounts to a simple emanation of sociobiology. This book summarizes the methodological abuses and the illusory legitimations of a school whose sterility can no longer be concealed, but which is preparing to reinvent itself by cynically replacing its faltering laws by hijacking the recent advances in epigenetics. The authors shed light on unjustly sacrificed paths in the study of socio-ecological interactions.

Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674000897

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Sociobiology by Edward O. Wilson Pdf

When this work was first published it started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. It shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience has strengthened the case for biological understanding of human nature.

Author : Kevin B. MacDonald
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461237600

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Sociobiological Perspectives on Human Development by Kevin B. MacDonald Pdf

Examines the importance of evolutionary biology for key issues in human development. Illustrates the power of socio- biological approaches in understanding developmental pheno- mena and their importance in generating new, empirically verifiable predictions.

Author : Ashley Montagu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015009134019

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Sociobiology Examined by Ashley Montagu Pdf

A collection of thirteen articles scrutinizes the controversial theory that human social behavior is primarily the result of genetic predetermination and refutes it as being scientifically unsound.