The semiotic life cycle and The Symbolic Species

In The Symbolic Species (1997) Terrence Deacon identifies human verbal language acquisition as the first and foremost evolutionary threshold where symbol use happens, with all the concomitant adaptive advantages it affords, but along with these advantages in this book and elsewhere he alludes to cer...

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Main Author: Tyler James Bennett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2015-12-01
Series:Sign Systems Studies
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Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/15894