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35What makes us human?In J. Zlatev, T. Racine, C. Sinha & E. Itkonen (eds.), The Shared Mind: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity, John Benjamins. 2008.
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23The cost of renovating the property: A reply to Marina RakovaCognitive Linguistics 13 (3). 2002.
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Iconology and imagination : explorations in sociogenetic economiesIn Armin W. Geertz & Jeppe Sinding Jensen (eds.), Religious narrative, cognition, and culture: image and word in the mind of narrative, Equinox. 2011.
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34Autonomy and its discontentsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4): 647-648. 1996.Müller's review of the neuroscientific evidence undermines nativist claims for autonomous syntax and the argument from the poverty of the stimulus. Generativists will appeal to data from language acquisition, but here too there is growing evidence against the nativist position. Epigenetic naturalism, the developmental alternative to nativism, can be extended to epigenetic socionaturalism, acknowledging the importance of sociocultural processes in language and cognitive development.
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216Objects in a storied world: Materiality, normativity, narrativityJournal of Consciousness Studies 16 (6-8): 6-8. 2009.There exists broad agreement that participatory, intersubjective engagements in infancy and early childhood, particularly triadic engagements, pave the way for the folk psychological capacities that emerge in middle childhood. There is little agreement, however, about the extent to which early participatory engagements are cognitively prerequisite to the later capacities; and there remain serious questions about exactly how narrative and other language practices can be shown to bridge the gap be…Read more
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Biology, culture and the emergence and elaboration of symbolizationIn Anjum P. Saleemi, Ocke-Schwen Bohn & Albert Gjedde (eds.), In search of a language for the mind-brain: can the multiple perspectives be unified?, Aarhus University Press ;. 2003.
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86The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 road map for research on How the Brain Got LanguageInteraction Studies 19 (1-2): 370-387. 2018.We present a new road map for research on “How the Brain Got Language” that adopts an EvoDevoSocio perspective and highlights comparative neuroprimatology – the comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in extant monkeys and great apes – as providing a key grounding for hypotheses on the last common ancestor of humans and monkeys and chimpanzees and the processes which guided the evolution LCA-m → LCA-c → protohumans → H. sapiens. Such research constrains and is constrained by analy…Read more
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9Twists and Turns: Ahead of or Behind the Curve?Constructivist Foundations 18 (1): 43-46. 2022.I argue that Kravchenko over-estimates the extent of the dominance of the traditional approach that the author criticizes, while under-estimating the continuing influence of different approaches in the history of language sciences. Karl Bühler’s Sprachtheorie is taken as a key example, and current developments drawing on 4E theories of cognition and niche-construction theory are outlined.
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40The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got LanguageInteraction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 19 (1-2): 370-387. 2018.We present a new road map for research on “How the Brain Got Language” that adopts an EvoDevoSocio perspective and highlights comparative neuroprimatology – the comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in extant monkeys and great apes – as providing a key grounding for hypotheses on the last common ancestor of humans and monkeys and chimpanzees and the processes which guided the evolution LCA-m → LCA-c → protohumans → H. sapiens. Such research constrains and is constrained by analy…Read more
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126Current topics and debates in human symbolic evolutionIn Nathalie Gontier, Andy Lock & Chris Sinha (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution, Oup. 2024.
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32The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution (edited book)OUP. 2024.The biological and neurological capacity to symbolize, and the products of behavioral, cognitive, sociocultural, linguistic, and technological uses of symbols (symbolism), are fundamental to every aspect of human life. The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution explores the origins of our characteristically human abilities - our ability to speak, create images, play music, and read and write. The book investigates how symbolization evolved in human evolution and how symbolism is expressed a…Read more
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30Praxis, symbol and languageInteraction Studies 19 (1-2): 239-255. 2018.This article focuses on the interweaving of constructive praxis with communication inontogenesis, inphylogenesisand in biocultural niche evolution (ecogenesis), within anEvoDevoSocioframework. I begin by discussing the nature of symbolization, its evolution from communicative signaling and its elaboration into semantic systems. I distinguish between thesymbol-readyand thelanguage-readybrain, leading to a discussion of linguistic conceptualization and itsdual groundingin organism and language sys…Read more
University of East Anglia
School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
PhD, 2019
Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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