Evolution, lineages and human language
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F19%3A10420667" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/19:10420667 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=4Q2F2pOjK0" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=4Q2F2pOjK0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2018.03.005" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.langsci.2018.03.005</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Evolution, lineages and human language
Original language description
In life as in language, living beings act in ways that are multiply constrained as history works through them both directly and as mediated by what we identify as structures (e.g. genes or words). Emphasising direct effects, we replace the 'language metaphor of life' with the view that language extends the domain of the living. Just as a living proteome system manages without central control, so does language. Both life and language enable living beings to expand into -and create - new domains or Umwelten. Pursuing the parallel, we link emphasis on fitness with Berthoz's notion of simplexity and the distributed view of life/language/cognition. The semiosphere evolved, we suggest, as systems found novel ways of tapping into the bio-ecology's energetics. Accordingly, there are striking parallels between how regulatory genes influence body structures and how, in humans, community histories re-echo during conversation. In both cases, cross-talk prompts living systems to re-enact a lineage/community's music (or 'worldviews'). While rejecting Berthoz's residual neuro-centrism, we find 'simplexity' to be a powerful heuristic. Instead of proposing a single explanatory principle (e.g. computation, autonomy), lineages and communities build on meaning by altering ways of coordinating/cooperating. In all cases, life and language co-operate to bring forth new possibilities. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-06962S" target="_blank" >GA16-06962S: Aristotle's Biological Thought and Contemporary Philosophy of Biology</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Language Sciences
ISSN
0388-0001
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
71
Issue of the periodical within the volume
JAN 2019
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
8-18
UT code for WoS article
000453498500003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85044872577