> On Jun 14, 2018, at 6:06 AM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > > I came across a Ted talk by Dan E with the title > "How language began". At the halfway mark (9 minutes) > he mentions Peirce and relates his semiotic to the issues: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFxg5vkaPgk > > My only comment would be that there was probably some > kind of vocalization a few million years earlier. > > Chimpanzees in the wild use gestures to communicate among > themselves. When Australopithecus began to walk upright, > they could carry stuff (food, weapons, and babies). Sounds > would be a useful supplement when their hands were full.
Some of Tomasello’s writings end up adopting fairly Peircean ideas along those lines. So far as I can recall he never mentions Peirce nor thirdness but much of his work ends up tied to a more robust thirdness leading to language. As I recall The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition has a lot of Peircean-like elements to it.
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