From Primate Communication to Human Language: Anthropological & Philosophical Speculations

What Is Genealogy? An Anthropological/Philosophical Reconsideration

Genealogical analysis in the present begs reconsideration of Nietzschean and Foucauldian precursors in relation to the ethical subject position of the subject, on the one hand, and application to concrete contexts of lineal connection asserted diversely across cultural time and space, on the other. This paper considers how the relation between genealogy and history has emerged in anthropologica...

From Temporality to Eternity: Three Philosophical Approaches

This article studies the problem of eternal life from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the approaches of Bergson, Husserl, and Heidegger from contemporary philosophy, and shows that using these three philosophical approaches can better explain certain aspects of revealed theology, such as resurrection of flesh, eternity in a transcendent dimension, and eternal life as the angels in he...

In : Encycllopediia of Language & Liinguiistiics – Second Ediitiion Nonhuman Primate Communication

Nonhuman primates produce a large number of communicative signals, especially in the auditory channel, and these calls function in a wide range of contexts including mating, alarm, food discovery, affiliative social relationships, and aggressive competition. In this chapter, we explore the information encoded in these signals and the perceptual decoding of and response to the signal. An underst...

Nonhuman Primate Communication, Pragmatics, and the Origins of Language

Language without communication intention

This paper argues that a language can exist and flourish in a community even if none of of the members of the community has any communication intentions; and that reference to the notion of communication intention can therefore be dispensed with in the core account of the nature oflinguistic meaning. Certainly one cannot elucidate the notion of linguistic meaning without reference to psychologi...