Pantomimic Conceptions of Language Origins

dc.contributor.authorWacewicz, Sławomir
dc.contributor.authorŻywiczyński, Przemysław
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-25T12:33:00Z
dc.date.available2019-11-25T12:33:00Z
dc.date.issued2019-11-25
dc.descriptionThis is a draft of a chapter that has been accepted for publication by Oxford University Press in the forthcoming book Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution, 2nd edition, edited by A. Lock, C. Sinha, N. Gontier, due for publication in 2020.pl
dc.description.abstractCould 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 interesting from this perspective is its rich expressive potential, since it can convey open-ended, semantically universal and displaced meanings without relying on semiotic conventions, so that spontaneous pantomimes can be recognized as such and successfully interpreted. Definitions are important in classifying a particular scenario as “pantomimic”. In this chapter, we employ a ‘rich’ definition of pantomime: we describe it as bodily-mimetic communication which is non-conventional, improvised, performed with the whole body, holistic, communicatively and semantically complex. Based on this foundation, we review and evaluate pantomimic accounts of language origins, from the past to the present, and we particularly focus on the contemporary pantomime accounts given by Michael Arbib, Michael Tomasello, and Jordan Zlatev.pl
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by grant UMO-2017/27/B/HS2/00642 from the Polish National Science Centrepl
dc.identifier.urihttp://repozytorium.umk.pl/handle/item/6194
dc.language.isoengpl
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectpantomimepl
dc.subjectmimepl
dc.subjectgesturepl
dc.subjectmimesispl
dc.subjectmultimodalitypl
dc.subjectlanguage evolutionpl
dc.subjectprotolanguagepl
dc.subjecticonicitypl
dc.subjectconventionalizationpl
dc.subjectenactmentpl
dc.titlePantomimic Conceptions of Language Originspl
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartpl
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/preprintpl

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