Linguaggio e antropogenesi in G.H. Mead
Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Emanuela Fadda
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2009/2 Language Italian
Pages 12 P. 145-156 File size 81 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2009-002013
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation
click here
Below, you can see the article first page
If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits
FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.
G.H. Mead on Language and Anthropogenesis - Language phylogenesis is often presented as a matter of controversy between followers of continuity vs discontinuity theories of development. Both kinds of theory may be described as projects for mind naturalization. However, the latter seems better to agree with recent paleo-anthropological data, which hint at a non-linear evolution, with no sudden morphological change. The paper presents an account of G. H. Mead’s theory which is surprisingly modern and of great relevance for present debates, as it describes the emergence of language as the joint action of adaptive skills already present in nature. Taking sociality as a biological universal, operating in different forms and degrees, Mead can trace the path from more elementary forms of social relation to the most complex and abstract tools of social thinking, typical of human communities.
Keywords: Phylogeny of language, Mind, Society, Biology, Subject, Communication.
Parole chiave: Filogenesi del linguaggio, Mente, Socialità, Biologia, Soggettività, Comunicazione
Emanuela Fadda, Linguaggio e antropogenesi in G.H. Mead in "PARADIGMI" 2/2009, pp 145-156, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2009-002013