Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction

ISBN-13: 9781845203948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 544 str.

Nicholas J. Enfield; Stephen C. Levinson

Opis

The book attempts for the first time to explore the underlying properties of social interaction viewed from across many disciplines, and examines their origin in infant development and in human evolution. Are interaction patterns in adulthood affected by cultural differences in childhood upbringing? Apes, unlike human infants of only twelve months, fail to understand pointing and the intention behind it. Nevertheless apes can imitate and analyze complex behavior--how do they do it? Deaf children brought up by speaking parents invent their own languages. How might adults deprived of a fully organized language communicate? The book makes the case that the study of these sorts of phenomena holds the key to understanding the foundations of human social life. The conclusion: our unique brand of social interactions at the root of what makes us human.

Spis treści

* Introduction: Human Sociality as a New Interdisciplinary FieldN.J. Enfield and Stepehn C. Levinson* Part 1: Properties of Human Interaction* On the Human 'Interaction Engine'Stephen C. Levinson* Interaction: The Infrastructure for Social Institutions, the Natural Ecological Niche for Language, and the Arena in which Culture is EnactedEmanuel A. Schegloff* Human Sociality as Mutual Orientation in a Rich Interactive Environment: Multimodal Utterances and Pointing in AphasiaCharles Goodwin* Social Actions, Social CommitmentsHerbert H. Clark* Part 2: Psychological Foundations* Infant Pointing at 12 Months: Communicative Goals, Motives, and Social-Cognitive AbilitiesUlf Liszkowski* The Development Interdependence of Theory of Mind and LanguageJanet Wilde Astington* Constructing the Social Mind: Language and False-Belief UnderstandingJennie E. Pyers* Sylvia's Recipe: The Role of Imitation and Pedagogy in the Transmission of Cultural KnowledgeGyörgy Gergely and Gergely Csibra* Part 3: Culture and Sociality* The Thought that Counts: The Interactional Consequences of Variation in Cultural Theories of MeaningEve Danziger* Cultural Perspectives on Infant-Caregiver InteractionSuzanne Gaskins* Joint Commitment and Common Ground in a Ritual EventWilliam F. Hanks* Habits and Innovations: Designing Language for New, Technologically Mediated SocialityElizabeth Keating* Part 4: Cognition in Interaction* Meeting Other Minds through Gesture: How Children Use their Hands to Reinvent Language and Distribute CognitionSusan Goldin-Meadow* The Distributed Cognition Perspective on Human InteractionEdwin Hutchins* Social Consequences of Common Ground N.J. Enfield* Why a Deep Understanding of Cultural Evolution is Incompatible with Shallow PsychologyDan Sperber* Part 5: Evolutionary Perspectives* Culture and the Evolution of the Human Social Instincts R. Boyd and P. J. Richerson* Parsing Behavior: A Mundane Origin for an Extraordinary Ability?Richard W. Byrne* Why Don't Apes Point?Michael Tomasello

O autorze

Nicholas J. Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson are at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.