MIĘDZYNARODOWA KONFERENCJA
LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL COORDINATION: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
Warsaw, 16-18 September 2010
The conference emphasizes the biological nature of language,
underscoring its coordinative function. The aim of the conference is
to 1) show continuity of natural language with other informational
systems in biology; 2) show that language arises from and is crucial
for human co-action.
Taking an evolutionary and comparative perspective, will draw
attention to the kinds of social coordination that arise without
(human-like) language, and that contribute to the background used by
(and present in) linguistic communication. By so doing, it will be
easier to appreciate the qualitatively different types of
co-ordination that are specific to humans and language-dependent.
The evolutionary perspective will help with coming to view language
as a natural phenomenon, continuous with other "informational"
systems at various levels of biological organization, that serve not
only vertical (inter-generational) transmission of structure but
also horizontal coordination both within and between organisms.
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