The Meaning of Primate Signals
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780521087735
- ISBN-10: 0521087732
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: December 2008
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.61 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.89 pounds
- Page Count: 272
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