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  • Adaptors and the Turn-Taking Mechanism: The Distribution of Adaptors Relative to Turn Borders in Dyadic Conversation 
    Żywiczyński, Przemysław; Orzechowski, Sylwester; Wacewicz, Sławomir (John Bejnamins, 2017-09)
    Turn-taking – the coordinated and efficient transition between the roles of sender and receiver in communication – is a fundamental property of conversational interaction. The turn-taking mechanism depends on a variety ...
  • An evolutionary approach to low-level conversational cooperation 
    Wacewicz, Sławomir; Żywiczyński, Przemysław; Chiera, Alessandra (2017)
    The cooperative character of language is an empirical fact and one of the key tenets in linguistics. However, this cooperative character is what makes it evolutionarily suspect: under normal circumstances sharing honest ...
  • Constraints on communicating the order of events in stories through pantomime 
    Sibierska, Marta; Żywiczyński, Przemysław; Zlatev, Jordan; van de Weijer, Joost; Boruta-Żywiczyński, Monika (2023-08-21)
    Pantomime is a means of bodily visual communication that is based on iconic gestures that are not fully conventional. It has become a key element in many models of language evolution and a strong candidate for the original ...
  • Evolutionary Stability of Linguistic Politeness and the Politeness Equilibrium Principle 
    Muehlenbernd, Roland; Żywiczyński, Przemysław; Wacewicz, Sławomir (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2018)
    Unlike many facets of language – phonology, syntax, semantics or even prag- matics – linguistic politeness (LP) has attracted little attention of evolutionarily minded researchers. We think that this lack of ...
  • From the narrow to the broad. Multiple perspectives on language evolution 
    Wacewicz, Sławomir; Żywiczyński, Przemysław (2015-01-31)
    Although many of the recent controversies in the field of language evolution research are empirical, the deepest divides seem to remain theoretical in nature. Specifically, defining language in incompatible ways has led ...
  • Language origins: Fitness consequences, platform of trust, cooperation, and turn-taking 
    Wacewicz, Sławomir; Żywiczyński, Przemysław (2018-04-26)
    In this paper, we complement proximate or ‘how’ explanations for the origins of language, broadening our perspective to include fitness-consequences explanations, i.e. ultimate, or ‘why’ explanations. We identify the ...
  • Linguistic politeness from an ethological perspective: Theoretical questions and empirical issues 
    Wacewicz, Sławomir; Żywiczyński, Przemysław; McCrohon, Luke (2015-01-31)
    Linguistic politeness (LP) refers to the set of “linguistic features mediating norms of social behaviour, in relation to such notions as courtesy, rapport, deference and distance” (Crystal 2008). Although researchers (e.g. ...
  • Multimodal-first or pantomime-first? 
    Zlatev, Jordan; Żywiczyński, Przemysław; van de Weijer, Joost; Wacewicz, Sławomir (John Bejnamins, 2017-11)
    A persistent controversy in language evolution research has been whether language emerged in the gestural-visual or in the vocal-auditory modality. A “dialectic” solution to this age-old debate has now been gaining ground: ...
  • Pantolang: A synthetic cognitive-semiotic approach to language origins 
    Zlatev, Jordan; Devylder, Simon; Wacewicz, Sławomir; Żywiczyński, Przemysław; Ferretti, Francesco; Adornetti, Ines; Chiera, Alessandra (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2018)
    We present an ongoing international project, From Pantomime to Language (PANTOLANG), aiming to develop a comprehensive, empirically grounded theory of the evolution of human language and the human mind, relying on the new ...
  • Pantomimic Conceptions of Language Origins 
    Wacewicz, Sławomir; Żywiczyński, Przemysław (2019-11-25)
    Could pantomime have been the key step in the evolutionary emergence of symbolic communication? Such a possibility has been consistently present in the intellectual reflection on language origins. What makes pantomime ...
  • The multimodal origins of linguistic communication 
    Wacewicz, Sławomir; Żywiczyński, Przemysław (2016)
    Why is language unique? How and why did it emerge? Such questions are emblematic of the Western intellectual tradition, and while some even today see them as intractable, a majority consider the problem of language origins ...
  • The narrow faculty of language: What is it, who has it, and how is it defined? 
    Wacewicz, Sławomir (NCU Press, 2012-11)
    In 2002, Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch introduced a terminological/conceptual distinction that became central to the entire field of language evolution research, by dividing the faculty of language into FLN (Faculty of language ...
  • The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s) 
    Pleyer, Michael (Elsevier, 2023-01-02)
    This paper discusses the role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the emergence of (proto)linguistic structures and the evolution of (proto)language(s). Both the social, interactive nature of human communication ...
  • The shades of social. A discussion of "The social origins of language", ed. Daniel Dor, Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis 
    Wacewicz, Sławomir (2015-01-31)
    Turning to the social dimension has been an influential trend in recent language evolution literature, as documented by e.g. Dunbar  et al. (ed. 2014), Scott-Phillips (2014), or Pina and Gontier (ed. 2014). The social ...
  • Vocal-auditory feedback and the modality transition problem in language evolution 
    Orzechowski, Sylwester; Wacewicz, Sławomir; Żywiczyński, Przemysław (2016)
    The gestural theories, which see the origins of (proto)linguistic communication not in vocalization but rather in manual gesture, have come to take center stage in today’s academic reflection on the roots of language. The ...