Roots of Human Sociality

Produktbeschreibung

This book marks an exciting convergence towards the idea that human culture and cognition are rooted in the character of human social interaction, which is unique in the animal kingdom. Roots of Human Sociality attempts for the first time to explore the underlying properties of social interaction viewed from across many disciplines, and examines their origins 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 12 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?This book makes the case that the study of these sorts of phenomenon holds the key to understanding the foundations of human social life. The conclusion: our unique brand of social interaction is at the root of what makes us human. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* 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 

Autoreninfo

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